live in
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[edit]live in (third-person singular simple present lives in, present participle living in, simple past and past participle lived in)
- (intransitive) To reside on the premises of one's employer (used especially of domestic staff such as nannies, cooks, maids, etc.)
- (literal) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see live, in.
- 2008, Kun-Hsien Tsai, Hsiu-Ying Lu, Jih-Jin Tsai, Sheng-Kai Yu, Jyh-Hsiung Huang, Pei-Yun Shu, “Human Case of Rickettsia felis Infection, Taiwan”, in Emerging Infectious Diseases[1], volume 14, number 12, , →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1970:
- In January 2005, a 27-year-old woman living in Fongshan City, Kaohsiung County, in southern Taiwan as admitted to Kaohsiung Medicial University Hospital with a 4-day history of intermittent fever (37.8°C-38.0°C), chills, headache, and fatigue.
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