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bed-and-breakfasting

bed-and-breakfasting is the present participle and gerund of bed-and-breakfast.

Meaning of bed-and-breakfast

Verb

bed-and-breakfast (third-person singular simple present bed-and-breakfasts, present participle bed-and-breakfasting, simple past and past participle bed-and-breakfasted)

  1. (intransitive) To stay in a bed and breakfast.
    • We bed-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.2011, Pam Ayres, The Necessary Aptitude, page 360
  2. To engage in a bed-and-breakfast deal.
    • However, other assets (e.g. works of art) are still sometimes bed-and-breakfasted for tax purposes.2016, Jonathan Law, A Dictionary of Accounting

Noun

bed-and-breakfasting (uncountable)

  1. The use of bed-and-breakfast deals.
    • In the case of equities and unit trusts, etc, this can be done by bed and breakfasting (selling one afternoon and buying back first thing the following morning), but care needs to be taken especially in the present volatile state of the stock market.1990, Accountancy, volume 150, page 40

Questions about bed-and-breakfasting

What does bed-and-breakfasting mean?
Bed-and-breakfasting means the use of bed-and-breakfast deals.
What is bed-and-breakfasting the present participle and gerund of?
Bed-and-breakfasting is the present participle and gerund of bed-and-breakfast.
What part of speech is bed-and-breakfasting?
Bed-and-breakfasting is a noun.

Words near bed-and-breakfasting in the dictionary

  1. bed-and-breakfast deal
  2. bed-and-breakfast deals
  3. bed-and-breakfast transaction
  4. bed-and-breakfast transactions
  5. bed-and-breakfasted
  6. bed-and-breakfasting
  7. bed-and-breakfasts
  8. bed-bath
  9. bed-baths
  10. bed-blocker
  11. bed-blockers

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