efficiency apartment

noun

Definition of efficiency apartmentnext
as in studio apartment

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Recent Examples of efficiency apartment Something like a small senior efficiency apartment would do. — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023 The second floor would have offices, including co-working space, and the third floor would have efficiency apartments. — Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2023 The efficiency apartment may have once been used as a guesthouse. — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 2 June 2023 The beating and his drinking hastened his decline, leaving the chiseled champ who was once the toast of the gay clubs now living in a cluttered efficiency apartment on Long Island with his trophies and championship belts in storage bags. — Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023 See All Example Sentences for efficiency apartment
Recent Examples of Synonyms for efficiency apartment
  1. studio apartment
  2. garden apartment
  3. duplex apartment
  4. efficiency
  5. railroad flat
  6. condo
  7. granny flat
  8. penthouse
Noun
  • Without a lawn or porch, living in a tiny home would be like living in a very cramped New York City studio apartment.
    — Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2025
  • But after a few years there, the punk front man moved about a ten-minute walk away into a studio apartment at 115 East 9th Street, a 20-story postwar high-rise.
    — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 28 Feb. 2025
Definition of studio apartment
Noun
  • The Secret Life of Pets actor also wanted to include a window in his shower because his favorite garden apartment in Chicago had that feature.
    — Charna Flam, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025
  • From $151 per night. BOOK NOW Pink Paradise in New Orleans, Louisiana This historic garden apartment—built in 1875— is a stunner on the inside and out.
    — Kristi Kellogg, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of garden apartment
Noun
  • The duplex apartment measures roughly 9,200 square feet with five bedrooms and six bathrooms.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Although she was born in Oakland, California, most of Harris’s early childhood was spent in a nondescript duplex apartment located above a day care facility in an area of West Berkeley known as the flatlands (her parents met as graduate students at UC Berkeley).
    — Michelle Duncan, Architectural Digest, 31 July 2024
Definition of duplex apartment
Noun
  • Intelligence agencies need reform, but simply eliminating offices involved with DEI and declaring it a victory for efficiency would miss the point.
    — Joshua Yaphe, National Review, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Thanks to the President’s refocus of the agency, the Institute of Museum and Library Services will be able to better showcase American exceptionalism with greater efficiency for the public.
    — Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2025
Definition of efficiency
Noun
  • The apartment’s railroad flat configuration is a plus.
    — Joanne Kaufman, New York Times, 31 July 2024
  • Shelton moved with her five kids to a railroad flat on Blake Street in Berkeley.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Mar. 2022
Definition of railroad flat
Noun
  • The high-floor condo in at the Aston Martin Residences Miami measures in at about 5,000 square feet with five bedrooms, two terraces, and endless views over Biscayne Bay.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Rising in its place will be an Epicure gourmet market, which the restaurant’s owners believe will better cater to the residents of the new Northeast Miami-Dade, with its luxury hotels and canyons of high-rise condos.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2025
Definition of condo
Noun
  • While the current legislation says that local governments can allow granny flats—independent living spaces added to homes or properties—new bills making their way to the state's chambers could require them to do so.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Catch up quick: Casitas are tiny homes behind larger houses that can be rented out or occupied by family (leading to their other names — in-law suites and granny flats).
    — Megan Stringer, Axios, 26 Feb. 2025
Definition of granny flat
Noun
  • Rosie O’Donnell is finally parting ways with her New York City penthouse amid her big move to Ireland.
    — Angel Saunders, People.com, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Klein’s penthouse had been put on the market before in 2019 for $6.5 million.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 25 Mar. 2025
Definition of penthouse

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