Meaning & use
living arrangements
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Meaning
nounusually plural
The way a person's home life is organized, including where they live, who they live with and how costs and space are shared.
Grammar: Usually plural: their living arrangements are unusual.
Patterns
- change living arrangements
- living arrangements for someone
Our living arrangements changed when my sister moved back home.
The form asks about your current living arrangements.
The students have comfortable living arrangements near the campus.
Word forms
| singular | living arrangement |
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Common combinations
- change living arrangements
- They had to change their living arrangements after the baby arrived.
- shared living arrangements
- Shared living arrangements keep rent low.
- current living arrangements
- Please describe your current living arrangements.
- temporary living arrangements
- The family made temporary living arrangements after the fire.
- make living arrangements
- He made living arrangements before moving abroad.
Synonyms and how they differ
- housing situation
- Housing situation focuses on the practical state of finding or keeping a home, while living arrangements includes who lives with you.
- accommodation
- Accommodation means the place itself, whereas living arrangements describes how living there is organized.
- domestic setup
- Domestic setup is informal and stresses household organization, while living arrangements is neutral and more common on forms.
Word family
- arrange verb
- to organize or put in order
- arrangement noun
- a plan or organization
- living noun
- the way someone earns money or lives
- live verb
- to have your home somewhere
Commonly confused: living arrangements or living conditions?
living arrangements vs living conditions
Living conditions describe how good or bad the home is, while living arrangements describe how the household is organized.
Practice
The housing form asks about your current ___, such as who you live with.
Choose one answer.
Living arrangements covers where and with whom you live. Living standards means quality of life, which is the tempting wrong option.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “living arrangements”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.