bed-and-breakfast

Meanings

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

alternativeAlternative form of bed and breakfast.
1 more example
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.
2023 March 22, Ben West, “This 835-Year-Old English Manor Needs Some Modern Love”, in The New York Times

verbbed-and-breakfast (third-person singular simple present bed-and-breakfasts, present participle bed-and-breakfasting, simple past and past participle bed-and-breakfasted)

present singular third person bed-and-breakfasts · participle present bed-and-breakfasting · participle past bed-and-breakfasted · past bed-and-breakfasted

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