“over、housed”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

over-housed

释义

over-housed, ppl. a.|ˌəʊvəˈhaʊzd|
[f. over- 28 d + housed ppl. a.¹]
Having house accommodation in excess of one's requirements or means. Hence (as a back-formation) over-house v. refl., to have house accommodation in excess of one's requirements or means.
1863W. M. Thackeray Let. 23 Sept. in J. Brown Lett. (1907) 332 If I don't mistake there was a man who lived at Abbotsford [sc. Sir W. Scott] overhoused himself.1887Spectator 5 Mar. 318/2 A doctor is always over⁓housed from professional necessities.1887Jessopp Arcady i. 15 The rural clergy..too many of them find themselves quite overhoused.1921Spectator 26 Feb. 261/1 Young people marrying on little and determined not to ‘overhouse’ themselves.1963Guardian 8 Mar. 4/4 Many of the chronic invalids were overhoused in that they were not able to make full use of their accommodation.1970Times 14 Mar. 3 In 1965 they found themselves over-housed and decided to sublet the fourth floor.

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