bed-and-breakfast

See also: Bed and Breakfast and bed and breakfast

English

Noun

bed-and-breakfast (plural bed-and-breakfasts)

  1. Alternative form of bed and breakfast.
    • 2023 March 22, Ben West, “This 835-Year-Old English Manor Needs Some Modern Love”, in The 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 a bed-and-breakfast, a farm shop, a cider business, a bakery, a pork store and various other commercial ventures to support its upkeep.

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