live in

Stay at home

To live in is to reside at one's place of employment, typically as domestic help: a live-in nanny, live-in housekeeper.

The arrangement provides housing as part of compensation.

A live-in partner or boyfriend shares a residence without marriage: They've been living together for three years, but she only recently became his live-in girlfriend.

cohabit

roommate

One sharing living quarters

togetherness · domesticity · sharing · communal · companionship · intimacy · coexistence · unmarried · nesting · harmony

reside

dwelling

Place of residence

residence · occupancy · tenancy · lodging · quarters · domicile · address · home · condo · loft

domestic

servant

One employed to serve

au pair · butler · caretaker · staff · quarters · employer · household · accommodation · position · employed

Opposites
residency arrangement

live inlive out

Experience to completion

commute · day worker · non-resident · external · come and go

domestic employment structure

live inpart-time

Limited work schedule

hourly · daily · nine-to-five

housing permanence

live invisit

Trip to see another

pass through · sojourn · camp out · crash · squat

Family

live, in, lively, alive, living, lives, lived, liveliness, outlive

Familiarity
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