service flat

noun

, British.

1. an apartment with complete hotel services.

service flat

noun

1. a flat in which domestic services are provided by the management Also called (esp Austral)serviced flat

Word History and Origins

Origin of service flat¹

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

National Park Service flat hat — backward.

From Washington Post

The X Train team envisions a first-class experience for its passengers, complete with cocktail service, flat screen TVs, Internet and smoke-friendly areas for the “under-appreciated market of those who choosee to smoke.”

From Forbes

He has given up his trophy-studded digs at 17A Bottle Street off Piccadilly for a service flat furnished �alas�in MGM Modern.

From Time Magazine Archive

For one week I had a service flat in London with an English butler that was such a prude he would make Ruggles of Red Gap look like a blacksmith.

From Time Magazine Archive

Anyway, she got mad and left the ambulance service flat, getting into some sort of brawl with an adjutant general or something through wanting to take a mere detail out of his hands that he felt should stay right where it was, he being one of these offensive martinets and a stickler for red tape, and swollen with petty power.

From Project Gutenberg