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room and board

noun

  1. lodging and meals.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of room and board1

First recorded in 1950–55
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Idioms and Phrases

Lodging and meals, as in The university's price for room and board has increased by another 10 percent . [Mid-1900s]
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Once a patient’s symptoms are stabilized, the payment for room and board ceases, and the patient is considered to be in a routine level of care.

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Tom ended up oscillating between GIP and routine levels of care at our inpatient hospice facility, therefore intermittently needing to pay the room and board costs.

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His attorney said in his closing argument that she got “room and board” for her efforts, something he called “industry standard,” the outlet said.

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Those who can afford to pay for room and board do.

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The few students left on campus tended to be resident assistants — who work in dorms in exchange for free room and board and other benefits — and international students whose families were far away.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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