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room and board
noun
- lodging and meals.
Word History and Origins
Origin of room and board1
Idioms and Phrases
Lodging and meals, as in The university's price for room and board has increased by another 10 percent . [Mid-1900s]Example Sentences
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.
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.
His attorney said in his closing argument that she got “room and board” for her efforts, something he called “industry standard,” the outlet said.
Those who can afford to pay for room and board do.
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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