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| apartment building |
An apartment building is a place that has apartments where different people live. Many families, couples, and single people can live in one apartment building. An apartment building often has many floors with different apartments on each floor. |
| condominium |
an apartment building in which each apartment is owned by the persons living in it. Each of these apartments is also called a condominium. |
| courtyard |
A courtyard is an open space surrounded by one large building. A courtyard might have trees, gardens, and benches, or it might be quite simple and plain. Modern buildings such as hospitals, hotels, and big apartment buildings sometimes have a courtyard, and large ancient buildings sometimes had a courtyard too. |
| laundry room |
A laundry room is a place where people wash clothes and other things like sheets and towels. A laundry room has at least one washing machine and usually a dryer. An apartment building often has a laundry room with a number of different washing machines and dryers. |
| mailbox |
A mailbox is a container used for holding mail. It is where people can pick up the mail that has been delivered to them. Sometimes a mailbox is outside someone's house or apartment building sitting on top of a post. In some apartment buildings, people's mailboxes are sections of a larger container built into a wall. In many places, people can use their mailboxes to send things to other people, but in some places, like large cities, the boxes are only used for deliveries. [1/2 definitions] |
| percent |
When we talk about "percent," we are talking about a certain part, or fraction, of something, just like when we talk about 1/2 or 2/3 or 3/4 of something. But when we talk about "percent," the bottom number of the fraction is always 100. For example, if we talk about fifty percent of something, we are talking about the fraction 50/100. If we talk about twenty percent of something, we are talking about the fraction 20/100. Let's say that fifty percent (50/100) of the people in your apartment building have pets and 200 people live in your building. This means that 100 of these two hundred people have pets. That's half of them. |
| project |
A housing project is a large group of apartment buildings or other homes that have been built with money from the government. The rent that people pay to live there is low compared with other places. [1/6 definitions] |
| super |
(informal) A super is a person who takes care of a building, especially an apartment building. The super sometimes fixes things and sometimes has someone else fix them, like a plumber or electrician. [1/3 definitions] |
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