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It can be used to refer to someone who is living in a provided room or apartment in exchange for money. For example: "The landlord has a single lodger occupying the spare room in his house."
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A return to the thriller genre with Pacific Heights (1990) had its moments, thanks to Michael Keaton's over-the-top performance as a lodger from hell and Schlesinger's guest appearance, and he took a larger role as Derek in the television play based on a gay novel, The Lost Language Of Cranes (1991).
This supposedly creepy demeanour proved – when Jefferies turned out to have absolutely no involvement whatsoever in the murder of his tenant by another lodger, Vincent Tabak – to have been a result of his private nature and the shock of being more or less accused of sexually motivated homicide by the British media.
CGT will be payable on disposal of the property because the student has had more than one lodger and therefore the whole property will not qualify for private residence relief.
THE case of Baby P, a toddler tortured and killed by his supposed carers, shocked Britain after the conviction last year of his mother, her lover and a lodger.
A blind lodger looks forward to the class revolution that never came.Then a rich racketeering butcher barges like a tank through the household.
What finally killed him on August 3rd 2007 was a blow to the head so severe that the postmortem found a tooth in his stomach.The two men, one the mother's boyfriend, the other a lodger, were found not guilty of murder.
The syndicate collected hefty sums by the standards of the times—£71 8s on the death of John Flanagan, £79 on the death of an unfortunate lodger, and £21 18s 6d on the death of Thomas's daughter Mary.
In the end, his entrepreneurial friends' cunning failed to protect him from the consequences of his own relative innocence.Defending human dignity from tyranny can often mean sacrificing one's lifeTyndale had secured living quarters in the Antwerp home of an English merchant, Thomas Pointz, who grew intensely protective of his brainy but unworldly lodger.
Flanked by a pair of large Scottish Saltire flags, he quotes the homespun wisdom of a childhood family friend, predicting that, after independence, England will lose a "surly lodger" and gain a "good neighbour .Mr Salmond calls himself the most Anglophile figure in Scottish politics.
Through the influence of Dr. Bryan Charles Waller, his mother's lodger, he prepared for entry into the University of Edinburgh's Medical School.
The borderline between a lodger and a cohabitant is by no means clear-cut in all cases nor readily established by any outside agency.
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