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bed-and-breakfast en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of bed and breakfast.
   alt of bed and breakfast
   • Ms. Soar’s parents bought the property in 1976, and the couple moved in 15 years ago. They’ve spent much of that time struggling to maintain the sprawling estate, operating a bed-and-breakfast, a farm shop, a cider business, a bakery, a pork store and various other commercial ventures to support its upkeep. 2023 March 22, Ben West, “This 835-Year-Old English Manor Needs Some Modern Love”, in The New York Times:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
bed-and-breakfasts	Number=Plur		lexicographic

bed-and-breakfast en · VERB

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To stay in a bed and breakfast.
   • We bed-and-breakfasted around Ireland and everywhere had placed before us great slashed loaves of soda bread made with coarse brown flour, buttermilk and bicarbonate of soda. 2011, Pam Ayres, The Necessary Aptitude, page 360:
2. To engage in a bed-and-breakfast deal.
   • However, other assets (e.g. works of art) are still sometimes bed-and-breakfasted for tax purposes. 2016, Jonathan Law, A Dictionary of Accounting:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
bed-and-breakfasting	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
bed-and-breakfasts	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic
bed-and-breakfasted	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
bed-and-breakfasted	Tense=Past		lexicographic