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Definition of Boarders
1. boarder [n] - See also: boarder
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boarders
Literary usage of Boarders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Immigration Problem: A Study of American Immigration Conditions and Needs by Jeremiah Whipple Jenks, William Jett Lauck, Rufus Daniel Smith (1922)
"boarders AND LODGERS Overcrowding is perhaps most frequently shown by the keeping
of boarders or lodgers. In the cities investigated by the Immigration ..."
2. Immigration and Labor: The Economic Aspects of European Immigration to the by Isaac Aaronovich Hourwich (1922)
"In reality, however, the 52 per cent of the Croatians who keep boarders or lodgers
do not help to pay the rent of the other 48 per cent who keep none. ..."
3. Homestead: The Households of a Mill Town by Margaret Frances Byington (1910)
"One-half the cost of the food was paid by the boarders including the brother,
... FOOD PURCHASED ON SPECIAL ORDER FOR boarders DURING MONTH ACCOUNT WAS KEPT ..."
4. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1890)
"Guests and boarders—Distinction Between.—There are two classes of persons who
are entertained by inn keepers for reward, guests and boarders.1 The ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Domestic Relations: Embracing Husband and Wife by James Schouler, Arthur Walker Blakemore (1921)
"In Keeping boarders. A wife cannot recover for board furnished to one living in
the family of which her husband is the head, in the absence of a contract ..."