Meaning & use
Roomers
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People who rent and occupy a room in someone else's house or a lodging house.
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The widow took in roomers to help pay the mortgage.
The old boarding house once housed a dozen roomers at a time.
A note on using this word
Not to be confused with its homophone "rumors"; "roomers" is a somewhat dated American English term for paying tenants who rent single rooms.
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