asylum hotel

noun

A hotel used to house asylum seekers while their claim to live in a country is processed.

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Meanings

nounasylum hotel (plural asylum hotels)

plural asylum hotels

  1. A hotel used to house asylum seekers while their claim to live in a country is processed.
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    The biggest improvement in rights for workers and renters in a generation. The biggest uplift in defence spending since the Cold War. Small boat crossings falling, asylum hotels closing, protecting young people from social media, and half a million children being lifted out of poverty because of the choices that I made.

    2026 June 22, Keir Starmer, resignation speech
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Chicago

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