living quarters

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Noun

living quarters - housing available for people to live in; "he found quarters for his family"; "I visited his bachelor quarters"

quarters

accommodation - living quarters provided for public convenience; "overnight accommodations are available"

domiciliation, lodgings, diggings, digs, pad - temporary living quarters

dorm, dormitory, residence hall, student residence, hall - a college or university building containing living quarters for students

fo'c'sle, forecastle - living quarters consisting of a superstructure in the bow of a merchant ship where the crew is housed

hareem, harem, seraglio, serail - living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household

housing, living accommodations, lodging - structures collectively in which people are housed

military quarters - living quarters for personnel on a military post

plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one

Translations

living quarters

npl → alloggi mpl

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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From working about the headquarters office, I was transferred to the colonel's living quarters. I had greater freedom, and no longer slept in one of the prisons, but had a little room to myself off the kitchen of the colonel's log house.

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She said it may be proposed that the living quarters at the People's Housing Project (PPR) flats be at least 900 sq ft in size instead of the current 600 sq ft.

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The business started with just 40 employees, but the awarding of a substantial five-year MOD contract to supply modular living quarters for soldiers based in Aldershot and Salisbury Plain transformed the operation.

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Around pounds 4,000 cash and pounds 3,000 worth of jewellery was stolen from the upstairs living quarters of the Defford Arms, Worcester Road, Defford.

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Over the next 7 years, teams of archaeologists primarily from the University of Sydney in Australia excavated the foundation of an approximately 100-square-meter, multiroom structure that probably served as living quarters for members of the community.

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Francis friary has been fully renovated to provide the living quarters, together with a conference center and office space with full dining facilities, and a large chapel for worship.

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There may be situations where senior staff members with their own living quarters can keep their medications with them, but camps should be aware of potential liabilities if the medications are being used inappropriately, and there is a bad outcome.

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The Norwegian oil company Statoil ASA said today (13 June) that it had awarded Swedish company Pharmadule Emtunga AB a contract to build the living quarters for the Kristin platform in the Norwegian Sea.

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A transition between the scale of the landscape and that of the living quarters is provided by the white soffit of the inverted roof slope, which signals the gap leading to the bedrooms at the rear.

SENSE OF PLACE

For many people, this analysis should involve consideration of continuing care facilities--retirement facilities that will provide both independent living quarters and long-term skilled nursing care.