bed-and-breakfast (pluralbed-and-breakfasts)
- Alternative form ofbed and breakfast.
2023 March 22, Ben West, “This 835-Year-Old English Manor Needs Some Modern Love”, inThe New York Times[1]:Ms. Soar’s parents bought the property in 1976, and the couple moved in 15 years ago. They’ve spent much of that time struggling to maintain the sprawling estate, operating abed-and-breakfast, a farm shop, a cider business, a bakery, a pork store and various other commercial ventures to support its upkeep.
bed-and-breakfast (third-person singular simple presentbed-and-breakfasts,present participlebed-and-breakfasting,simple past and past participlebed-and-breakfasted)
- (intransitive) Tostay in abed and breakfast.
2011, Pam Ayres,The Necessary Aptitude, page360:Webed-and-breakfasted around Ireland and everywhere had placed before us great slashed loaves of soda bread made with coarse brown flour, buttermilk and bicarbonate of soda.
- (finance) To engage in abed-and-breakfast deal.
2016, Jonathan Law,A Dictionary of Accounting:However, other assets (e.g. works of art) are still sometimesbed-and-breakfasted for tax purposes.
