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

Recent Examples on the Web In Pensacola, Florida, strong winds uprooted a massive tree and toppled it onto Robert Havens' mobile home. Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024 Now, she’s been sentenced but avoided prison time recommended by prosecutors after the theft ended at the Lava Bluff mobile home park in Hurricane, about 300 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, court records show. Julia Marnin, Sacramento Bee, 9 Apr. 2024 The fatal shooting stemmed from a dispute involving multiple people at the mobile home park, including 22-year-old suspect Elwyn Lopez, over a truck blocking the street, according to police and media reports. Lauren Liebhaber, Kansas City Star, 1 Apr. 2024 Zambrano lived in a mobile home park on Colfax Avenue in Aurora, according to the affidavit. Shelly Bradbury, The Denver Post, 8 Mar. 2024 Robert McDermott, who owns a mobile home park serving water to 100 residents east of Wenden, said his 600-foot well went dry. The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2024 Officers were responding to a call around 5:30 p.m. Saturday about a man carrying a knife at a mobile home park on Vienna Drive, off Tasman Drive and Lawrence Expressway, according to a Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety (DSPS) press release. Ryan MacAsero, The Mercury News, 24 Mar. 2024 Bills seek to regulate mobile home parks Rogensues is among the proponents of a package of Senate bills to regulate mobile home parks. Detroit Free Press, 23 Mar. 2024 Severe weather leaves trail of destruction in the Midwest At least two people have died in a possible tornado that hit a mobile home park in Ohio, and significant injuries and flattened buildings were reported in an Indiana town as severe weather struck several states yesterday. Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 15 Mar. 2024

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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 19 Apr. 2024.

Kids Definition

mobile home

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

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