welfare hotel

welfare hotel

noun
a hotel in which people receiving welfare assistance are temporarily housed until permanent quarters become available.

Origin:
1970–75
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Welfare hotel is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Main Entry:  welfare hotel
Part of Speech:  n
Definition:  a hotel used to house people on welfare benefits until they can find other housing
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