mobile home

noun

: a dwelling structure built on a steel chassis and fitted with wheels that is intended to be hauled to a usually permanent site compare motor home

Examples of mobile home in a Sentence

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Phoenix fire personnel responded to a double mobile home fire on Sunday around 9:45 a.m. near 24th Street and Union Hills Drive. Lauren De Young, The Arizona Republic, 26 Nov. 2024 Cost segregation is about strategically breaking down a mobile home park’s individual components to depreciate the asset as quickly as possible. Brian Spear, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024 Starting Friday, the mobile home on the grounds of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) will do just that. Annalise Frank, Axios, 20 Nov. 2024 Firefighters rescued at least two people trapped in overturned mobile homes, the Oklahoma City Fire Department said in a Facebook post. Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for mobile home 

Word History

First Known Use

1934, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of mobile home was in 1934

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“Mobile home.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mobile%20home. Accessed 2 Dec. 2024.

Kids Definition

mobile home

noun
: a trailer that is used as a dwelling at a permanent site

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