The word 'lodgers' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word 'lodgers' to refer to people who are temporarily staying in a residence, typically paying rent to the owner. For example: "Three lodgers currently live in this duplex apartment."
Al moved with Shelley to a different part of Leeds, but continued to subvert traditional models of family life by keeping an open house for various children (including Maya Wild) and lesbian lodgers.
Her mother then took in lodgers through whom she set herself up in sexual competition with her then teenage daughter a game of triangles that she eventually lost.This is a terrible and moving memoir, both raw and artful.
The lodgers grow fat on the dinners he provides though they are, correctly, suspicious of his intentions.
The pair wrote a paper together years later for the pleasure of the joint authorship: "Box and Cox"—the name of a popular farce in which two lodgers, one of whom works by day and one by night, rent the same room.Many other war statisticians had equally illustrious careers.
Restrictions on privacy among the latter were apparent in what were by modern standards large households, in which space was often shared with those outside the immediate, conjugal family of the head of household, including relatives, servants, and lodgers.
In a built-up, crowded, gossipy, fluid yet constrained land, landlords and landladies host, and plague, their climbing or declining lodgers and guests, from Charles Dickens ("Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings") to VS Naipaul ("The Perfect Tenants").
In 1920s London, Frances and her mother find themselves in financial trouble after the death of her father and take lodgers, or 'paying guests' into their home to help make ends meet.
The number of people taking in lodgers has doubled this year to almost one million, and homeowners are using the extra cash to pay off mortgages, household bills and personal debt in these income squeezing times, says LV=.
The website does, however, encourage landlords to draw up a contract with lodgers since there are no statutory rules governing this area.
Her "granny diaries", a series of novels about a quirky divorcee of a certain age who lives in Shepherds Bush and takes in lodgers, have sold in seven figures (and paid for her kitchen extension).
To save them from penury, mother and daughter take in lodgers – "paying guests" in polite parlance.
