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efficiency apartment

noun

  1. a small apartment consisting typically of a combined living room and bedroom area, a bathroom, and a kitchenette.


efficiency apartment

noun

  1. a small flat or bedsit
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of efficiency apartment1

First recorded in 1925–30
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Example Sentences

While both an efficiency apartment and a studio apartment can have the same number of rooms, the footprint of an efficiency apartment is always smaller.

In Suzan-Lori Parks’s “Topdog/Underdog,” a revival of which is at the Golden Theater through Sunday, the brothers Lincoln and Booth share Booth’s tiny efficiency apartment.

His family lives with his cousin’s family — about 10 people total — all sharing an efficiency apartment that rents for $2,000 a month.

She purchased her first home in El Camino through the program after living in an efficiency apartment out of the city.

Smilen fed street cats nightly and began hoarding them inside the small efficiency apartment.

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