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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
residence
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a residence permit (also residency permit especially AmE) (= one that allows you to live in a country)
▪ Residence permits will be limited to five years.
an official residence (=a house someone is able to use as part of their important job)
▪ the ambassador's official residence in London
hall of residence
residence hall
sb’s place of residenceformal
▪ By law, you must inform us if you change your place of residence.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
main
▪ The castle became one of the duke's main northern residences and local families turned naturally to him for lordship.
▪ Accommodation 390 rooms in bungalows or two main residences.
▪ The property is personally owned and occupied, used as a single main residence and there is no letting.
▪ There are a number of exemptions, including a sole or main residence, a private car and life insurance policies.
official
▪ He was to spend most of the next fourteen years in official residences.
▪ The administration had now returned to its official residence, and the business of government was under way.
▪ There he had an official residence, but he continued to run his Whitechapel nursery, with another in London Fields.
▪ In addition to a salary, most governors received perquisites such as transportation and an official residence.
▪ There was no need for an official residence for the Foreign Secretary.
▪ It was, in fact, the official London residence of both Charles and Di until the couple formally separated.
▪ No departing presidential couple in history have ever left the official residence so bowed down with booty.
permanent
▪ He remained temporarily in Paris and even considered permanent residence there.
▪ All those with permanent residence in the republic are to be allowed to vote in a 10 December poll.
▪ Bloody Gorgeous seems to have taken up permanent residence in her bed.
private
▪ It was originally built as a private residence and the Association bought the home in 1962.
▪ Resorts and private residences remain accessible.
▪ It had the quiet secluded air of a gentleman's private residence about it.
▪ Their love nest is the master suite of a glitzy private residence in a new gated Big D community.
▪ Wortley was closed as long ago as 1955, but part of it survives as a private residence.
▪ The proceeds of sale can be used to pay off less tax-efficient borrowings, such as a mortgage on a private residence.
▪ It is now partly a museum and partly a private residence.
royal
▪ In 1698, a fire destroyed much of the palace and the royal residence shifted to St James's.
▪ The guest house for the abbey became the nucleus of a royal residence.
▪ And Richmond is only one of the royal residences!
temporary
▪ Police were not interested in her marriage certificate, her permit to leave home or her temporary residence card for Zhuhai.
▪ Management of construction projects overseas usually entails temporary residence in another country.
▪ While Edinburgh itself was growing in importance as a centre of government, the temporary residence was refashioned into a palace.
■ NOUN
country
▪ Refurbished Gentlemen's country residence retaining its charm and family atmosphere.
hall
▪ C., anti-Semitic graffiti were spray-painted on the main gate and on a residence hall.
order
▪ The 21 days for a residence order application is the standard.
▪ On 28 January 1992 a residence order was made, with the order for costs which is the subject of this appeal.
▪ This is because the making of a residence order with respect to a child in care discharges an existing care order.
▪ But it is obviously undesirable to have exparte residence orders other than very occasionally.
▪ At a private hearing in Torquay, a judge granted a residence order which allows her to continue living with her grandparents.
▪ Nothing is said about residence orders, either that they can be made or that they can not be made exparte.
▪ Parents, relatives and foster parents may seek a residence order under s8 in order to secure a child's release from care.
▪ The boy's paternal grandmother had unsuccessfully applied for a residence order.
permit
▪ In addition, residence permits will be limited to five years.
▪ The owners wanted rent, and the government, after granting residence permits, stopped paying.
▪ Statute provides an appeals procedure against deportation, the non renewal of residence permits and other types of restrictions.
requirement
▪ No provision of Community law could justify the residence requirements laid down in the Act of 1988. 70.
▪ Tax tables and residence requirements now are subjects being discussed around batting cages.
▪ A residence requirement applying without discrimination to nationals and nationals of other member states was held in Robert Fearon &038; Co.
▪ They referred in that connection to their arguments with regard to the residence requirement. 83.
▪ The Commission therefore referred to its observations on the residence requirements.
▪ In the view of the applicants in the main proceedings, a residence requirement would not automatically infringe article 52.
summer
▪ In the afternoon, we visited the famous Schonbrunn Palace - the former summer residence of the Habsburgs.
▪ St Cloud: the favourite summer residence.
time
▪ The presence of hydrogen means they are less stable in the atmosphere, leading to a greatly reduced atmospheric residence time.
■ VERB
apply
▪ In the 1988 Budget this was changed to apply to the residence only and not to the individual.
▪ The boy's paternal grandmother had unsuccessfully applied for a residence order.
enter
▪ The stuff enters the residence and the mind with very little effort.
establish
▪ He said that once he established residence in California, he would get a new license.
force
▪ Property was stolen from a residence entered by forcing a rear door.
▪ A residence was entered by forcing a front door.
take
▪ Its tearing rage tells of torment and the anguished devils that take up emotional residence in your heart after a fractured romance.
▪ Naturally she took up residence, and by the time Nigel came back she was well established.
▪ The labs' distant agents are Kurds who have taken up residence in the West.
▪ One of them has taken up residence in a hut in Roche's garden.
▪ Suzie announced brightly, as the guilty fat girl I grew up with suddenly took up residence in my body again.
▪ Since Josie had taken up residence, the two would-be lovers had spent exactly one hour and eight minutes in privacy.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ 10 Downing Street is the British Prime Minister's official residence.
▪ Joel needed a passport and a residence permit before he could move to the Bahamas.
▪ One of the greatest residences that Wright designed is Hollyhock House.
▪ We first met at a cocktail party at the residence of the Russian ambassador.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I am meeting Enya and the Ryans somewhere near her carefully guarded Killiney residence on a silvery wet and foggy autumn day.
▪ In addition to a salary, most governors received perquisites such as transportation and an official residence.
▪ In one week in the 1640s Hurstmonceux had nineteen visitors in residence, apart from others engaged in repair and building works.
▪ John Major leaves the residence in defeat.
▪ The missions were not merely churches but entire working communities, with farms, blacksmiths, flour mills and residences.
▪ They all went to Maeda's residence in Jakarta; he sent messages to the high command, but nobody turned up.
▪ To that end, the carpeting in virtually all the residences is a bland beige -- making the homes easier to sell.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Residence

Residence \Res"i*dence\ (r?z"?-dens), n. [F. r['e]sidence. See Resident.]

  1. The act or fact of residing, abiding, or dwelling in a place for some continuance of time; as, the residence of an American in France or Italy for a year.

    The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy.
    --Sir M. Hale.

  2. The place where one resides; an abode; a dwelling or habitation; esp., a settled or permanent home or domicile. ``Near the residence of Posthumus.''
    --Shak.

    Johnson took up his residence in London.
    --Macaulay.

  3. (Eng. Eccl. Law) The residing of an incumbent on his benefice; -- opposed to nonresidence.

  4. The place where anything rests permanently.

    But when a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all his regal power, he then, . . . fights against his own majesty and kingship.
    --Milton.

  5. Subsidence, as of a sediment. [Obs.]
    --Bacon.

  6. That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum. [Obs.]
    --Jer. Taylor.

    Syn: Domiciliation; sojourn; stay; abode; home; dwelling; habitation; domicile; mansion.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
residence

late 14c., "act of dwelling; dwelling place," from Old French residence, from Medieval Latin residentia, from Latin residentem (nominative residens) "residing, dwelling," present participle of residere "reside" (see reside). Also borrowed into German (Residenz), Dutch (residentie).

Wiktionary
residence

n. 1 The place where one lives. 2 A building used as a home. 3 The place where a corporation is established. 4 The state of living in a particular place or environment. 5 The place where anything rests permanently. 6 subsidence, as of a sediment 7 That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.

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WordNet
residence

  1. n. any address at which you dwell more than temporarily; "a person can have several residences" [syn: abode]

  2. the official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president); "he refused to live in the governor's residence"

  3. the act of dwelling in a place [syn: residency, abidance]

  4. a large and imposing house [syn: mansion, mansion house, manse, hall]

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Wikipedia
Residence

A residence is an establishment where it was originally or currently being used by a host as their main place of dwelling or home. Architecturally, a residence is typically a house, mansion, cottage or grand castles and palaces. A residence is offered to travelers as temporary lodgings where they can rent a room. The rooms are generally furnished in the style which complements the architecture type of the building. This boutique type of accommodation has a nice homely feel where the traveler is the 'house-guest'. Hotels, especially the extended stay chains, commonly function as residences for many guests.

Residence may more specifically refer to:

  • Home, a place of residence or refuge
    • Group home, a private residence designed to serve children or adults with chronic disabilities. Typically there are no more than six residents and there is a trained caregiver there twenty-four hours a day
    • Nursing home, provides a type of residential care
  • Dwelling or accommodation
    • House, a home, building, or structure that functions as a habitat for humans or other creatures
    • Lodging, a type of residential accommodation. People who travel and stay away from home for more than a day need lodging for sleep, rest, safety, shelter from cold temperatures or rain, storage of luggage and access to common household functions
  • Habitual residence, a civil law term dealing with the status of refugees, and child abduction
  • Residence in English family law, pertaining to where children should live in the case of disputes
  • Tax residence, to determine the location of someone's home for tax purposes
  • The Canadian term for what Americans call a dormitory
  • Residenz, the German term for residence which normally meant the city palace of a noble family
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Usage examples of "residence".

To accomplish these salutary ends, the constant residence of an Imperial governor, supported by a numerous army, was indispensably requisite.

It was the residence of two sisters--the elder extremely ugly and the younger very pretty, but the elder sister was accounted, and very rightly, the Corinna of the place.

The prayers of the Goths were granted, and their service was accepted by the Imperial court: and orders were immediately despatched to the civil and military governors of the Thracian diocese, to make the necessary preparations for the passage and subsistence of a great people, till a proper and sufficient territory could be allotted for their future residence.

The Isle of Thanet, a secure and fertile district, was allotted for the residence of these German auxiliaries, and they were supplied, according to the treaty, with a plentiful allowance of clothing and provisions.

A country palace, in the neighborhood of Compiegne was allotted for their residence or prison: but each year, in the month of March or May, they were conducted in a wagon drawn by oxen to the assembly of the Franks, to give audience to foreign ambassadors, and to ratify the acts of the mayor of the palace.

Hogg relinquished the farm of Mount Benger, and returned to his former residence at Altrive.

Ailim had bespelled the glider to return to the Residence as soon as she stepped from the vehicle.

It was linked to Brownsville by the twenty-five mile umbilicus of Route 77, The George Brell residence was at 18 Linden Way, Wentwood.

This nobleman sent major-general Bland to Franckfort, with a compliment to the emperor, assuring him, in the name of his Britannic majesty, that the respect owing to his dignity should not be violated, nor the place of his residence disturbed.

Savage left his car parked in a dark side street and walked a block to the Bullock residence.

He liked the food, he liked seeing his father buttle, and he liked these amazing freaks who were, it appeared, fellow-inmates with him of this highly desirable residence.

As I am taking up residence here in Berlin, I shall look forward to exchanging views with your royal highness on such matters in coming years, as you grow in wisdom and maturity.

Treaty Ports, many located in the interior on rivers, the foreign Customs Officer in uniform was a familiar presence and an extraterritorial area was set aside for foreign business and residence.

By the time they topped the last long hill that led down to the city, the steep slate roofs rising like a stone forest from the paler stones of the houses, the royal residence sitting on its artificial hill to the north as though it floated above the ordinary world, they could see the crowds gathering along the Horsegate Road.

On his way to Mantua the General took up his residence in the palace of the ancient dukes.