efficiency apartment

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A small, usually furnished apartment with a private bathroom and kitchenette.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun a small apartment{4}, sometimes furnished, with minimal kitchen and bath facilities. The unit may comprise a single room plus a bathroom, and the kitchen facilities are often open to the main room, or may form a small niche in a corner. There are many variations of efficiency apartment, including some in which furnishings such as a bed may be pulled out from a wall recess and stored there again when not in use. Also called an efficiency.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a furnished apartment with a kitchenette and bathroom