(n.) One who, or that which, lodges; one who occupies a hired room in another's house.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ursula Nevin, 24, of Stretford, slept through the riots, but was jailed for five months after admitting handling stolen goods looted by her lodger.
(2) But as "excluded occupiers" without tenancies, lodgers have very few rights and can be easily evicted if something goes wrong (the landlord only has to give "reasonable notice").
(3) Get a lodger in If it's just your clothes horse that lives in the spare room, consider getting in a real person.
(4) Last year his mother, her boyfriend and their lodger were convicted of causing or allowing his death.
(5) "The government is advising these families to consider taking in a lodger to make up the financial shortfall, but none of these families have a spare room available because the rooms are already being used.
(6) The rise of the landlord-lodger arrangement could help utilise the estimated 15 million unused bedrooms in England alone, giving renters more options and helping squeezed families and retirees cope with the higher cost of living.
(7) The idea of taking in a lodger is as old as the hills, but there are now a host of other ways to make a bit of money out of allowing people to stay in your home – on terms that suit your needs and lifestyle.
(8) Other support includes advising on handling debt and avoiding payday loan companies; working with the local credit union; looking at ways to increase self-esteem, confidence and employability skills to help residents secure employment; helping vulnerable people fill in forms; and discussing options such as taking in a lodger.
(9) A lodger can occupy a single room or an entire floor of your home.
(10) According to the latest figures from insurance firm LV=, the number of people renting a spare room has nearly doubled in the past five years: 2.7% of UK homeowners now have a lodger, compared with 1.4% in 2009.
(11) The plumber and gas engineer became a lodger in London after splitting up with a girlfriend over a year ago.
(12) Theresa May's scheme requiring all private landlords to check the immigration status of new tenants and lodgers has run straight into trouble with the Liberal Democrats , who have voiced concerns that it will increase homelessness and drive migrants underground into the hands of unscrupulous landlords.
(13) The last place I was a lodger wasn't a great - a little bit cold and regimental.
(14) Housing charity Shelter is backing calls to raise the threshold to £7,500 to match the reality of today's rents (the average annual rent for a room let to a lodger stands at £5,593, rising to £7,667 in London).
(15) Homeowners will be able to receive as much as £7,500 in rent from lodgers without having to pay tax, compared with the current ‘rent a room’ limit of £4,250.
(16) The family is planning to use the loft area as an extra bedroom for a lodger to raise money.
(17) Yet a growing number of homeowners are enjoying a tax-free income boost by taking in a lodger.
(18) A woman who spent a week in prison separated from her two young children after she handled a pair of shorts looted from Manchester city centre by her lodger during the riots has been freed on appeal.
(19) Opening the case, Michael Morley said Nevin – who has no previous convictions – had the "misfortune" to have Gemma Corbett as a lodger.
(20) This means that just over 70% of your before-tax salary would be going on mortgage repayments which doesn't leave much change for other bills even taking into account rent from a lodger and possible maintenance payments for your children from your ex.
Longer
Definition:
(n.) One who longs for anything.
Example Sentences:
(1) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
(2) National policy on the longer-term future of the services will not be known until the government publishes a national music plan later this term.
(3) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
(4) They had allegedly agreed that Younous would not be charged with any crime upon his arrival there and that he would not be detained in Morocco for longer than 72 hours.
(5) However, time in greater than 21% oxygen was significantly longer in infants less than 1000 g (median 30 days, 8.5 days in patients greater than 1000 g, p less than 0.01).
(6) To this figure an additional 250,000 older workers must be added, who are no longer registered as unemployed but nevertheless would be interested in finding another job.
(7) The cis isomer was retained longer in liver, particularly in mitochondria, but had low retention in that portion of the endoplasmic reticulum isolated as the rough membrane fraction.
(8) Short incubations with heparin (5 min) caused a release of the enzyme into the media, while longer incubations caused a 2-8-fold increase in net lipoprotein lipase secretion which was maximal after 2-16 h depending on cell type, and persisted for 24 h. The effect of heparin was dose-dependent and specific (it was not duplicated by other glycosaminoglycans).
(9) The results show that in TMO-treated animals the time to the onset of convulsions, the time to the onset of NADH oxidation-reduction cycles, and the survival time were significantly longer than in the control group.
(10) Obamacare price hikes show that now is the time to be bold | Celine Gounder Read more No longer able to keep patients off their plans outright, insurers have resorted to other ways to discriminate and avoid paying for necessary treatments.
(11) BT Sport's marketing manager, Alfredo Garicoche, is more effusive still: "We're not thinking for the next two or three years, we're thinking for the next 20 or 30 years and even longer.
(12) Propofol is ideal for short periods of care on the ICU, and during weaning when longer acting agents are being eliminated.
(13) We found that, compared to one- and two-dose infants, those treated with three doses of Exosurf were more premature, smaller, required a longer ventilator course, and had more frequent complications, including patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), intraventricular hemorrhage, nosocomial pneumonia, and apnea.
(14) These data, compared with literature findings, support the idea that intratumoral BCG instillation of bladder cancer permits a longer disease-free period than other therapeutical approaches.
(15) On Friday, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry appeared to confirm those fears, telling reporters that the joint declaration, a deal negotiated by London and Beijing guaranteeing Hong Kong’s way of life for 50 years, “was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance”.
(16) The scleral arc length is slightly longer than the chord length (caliper setting).
(17) We need you, so keep us company for a while longer.
(18) But the amount of time spent above SPA has differed substantially between men and women due to women both living longer, and reaching state pension age earlier.
(19) But the median survival time was 30.7 months in Arm A and 24.5 months in Arm B, and significantly longer in Arm A until 10 months.
(20) The return of NE to normal levels after one month is consistent with the observation that LH-lesioned rats are by one month postlesion no longer hypermetabolic, but display levels of heat production appropriate to the reduced body weight they then maintain.