STAY WITH SB, IN A HOTEL ETCsomeone who pays rent for a room in someone’s house 房客,寄宿者SYN American English boarder
We have decided to take in lodgers to help pay the mortgage.
我们决定收几个房客帮助偿还抵押贷款。
Examples from the Corpus
lodger• Are you still looking for a lodger?• And I've got a lodger.• If you're having trouble paying your mortgage, consider taking in a lodger or at least renting out a room.• Deborah had taken a lodger the moment she found her place.• Nor did she know if there should be some legaldocumentsetting out the terms upon which landladies and lodgersagreed.• In contrast the relationships of landlady and lodger, landlord and tenant may have this component.• We had lodgers all through the war, most of them evacuees.• This young lady's our new lodger.• He did not expect the lodger to return.• I hope that you are well, and taking care of yourself, and that the lodgers are agreeable.
take in lodgers• A woman who offers hospitality to guests is more honourable than one who has to take in lodgers for a fee.• Others used their empty houses to run a cornershop or to take in lodgers, sometimes both together.• The right to take in lodgers.