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  • noun Plural form of bedsit.

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Examples

  • "They are being forced into bedsits and other overcrowded accommodation because they can't afford a one- or two-bedroom place."

    Leak reveals benefits cap will hit 100,000 children 2012

  • Various limits on what rents can be paid to private landlords have come into force since April last year and already families are moving out of more expensive London boroughs into other areas or into smaller accommodation in bedsits and hostels, it is claimed.

    Leak reveals benefits cap will hit 100,000 children 2012

  • She married her second husband, the artist and writer Victor Musgrave, in Cairo during the war, and the couple came to England in 1945, to austerity and Soho and the Colony Room club, to a land of coffee bars and struggling writers in bedsits.

    Portraits of the artists 2011

  • I rent the property out to four graduates who are all currently employed, and the house has not been converted into bedsits.

    Who will insure my rental property? 2011

  • If York planners approve, there'll also be 600 extra student bedsits and 17 staff jobs.

    Second day of student protests - how the demonstrations happened Adam Gabbatt 2010

  • But however capable our security services, the government's indulging in tortuous linguistic exercises like 'unislamic activity' and 'violent extremism' to avoid the obvious problem of Islamism - and the blind eye turned to the DIRTs in N Ireland - does little to dissuade the would-be self-detonaters in their bedsits in Luton of the moral seriousness or commitment of the British state.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • The participants were vulnerable, mainly living in cheap Victorian bedsits that have attracted hundreds of refugees, first from Kosovo and later economic migrants from Latvia, Lithuania and other EU states, drawn to Hastings and St Leonards-on-Sea in the hope of getting work in food-processing factories.

    Vicar convicted of conducting hundreds of fake weddings at local parish church 2010

  • Her father was a founder of Eros, a student body which campaigned during the 70s and 80s for a separate Tamil state; his actions meant that Maya and her family were forced to return to London in 1987, where they lived in bedsits, hostels and council flats.

    MIA: 'I'm here for the people' 2010

  • We already have a situation in which 44% of websites disappear within a year - and this applies as much to national libraries and museums as it does to bedsits in Clapham.

    Internet News: Internet Culture Archives 2009

  • And why did the coppers in the 70s live in really grotty bedsits?

    The Politics of Life On Mars Newmania 2007

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