Airbnb
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Shortening of the company's former name AirBed & Breakfast, coined by co-founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia in 2007, who originally came up with the idea of putting an air mattress in their living room and turning it into a bed and breakfast. Equivalent to air + B&B (“bed and breakfast”).
Compound parts: air
B&B
Inflected forms:
form: Airbnbs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: airbnb
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: AirBnB
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Airbnbs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Airbnb's
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Airbnbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Airbnb'ing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Airbnbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Airbnbed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: Airbnb'd
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Airbnb'd
pos: verb
tags: past
form: Airbnb'ed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Airbnb'ed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: airbnb
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: AirBnB
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The system of renting out apartments by means of an intermediary website, popularized by the company of the same name.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: It's more of an Airbnb model than a proper let.
Congratulations, you're fully qualified to be part of the Airbnb revolution! Whether you're looking to start hosting your property or want to grow your existing reputation and profits, this is the perfect destination for you.
The market space in Airbnb is becoming more competitive as big money players are entering the game of home-sharing.
gloss: An apartment offered for renting by means of this system.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: I am staying at an Airbnb for the summer.
The thought of turning it into an Airbnb had crossed my mind – albeit only fleetingly.
I'd found an Airbnb not far from the university and, after a quick nap, met up again with Trudy, who had promised to show me the Regina ropes.
Tasteful, from a high-end store, not standard-issue teenager stuff. It was like they were living in a hotel or an Airbnb.
gloss: To rent (an apartment) by Airbnb or similar means, whether as a lessor or a lessee.
pos: verb
tags: neologism
transitive
examples: Jamie Wong […] told me: “I moved out of my apartment in central San Francisco, rented a cheaper annex in a friend’s home, and ‘airbnb-ed’ my apartment for $200 a night and earned about $20,000 in a year. It enabled me to bootstrap my start-up. Airbnb was our first round of funding!”
"In neighborhoods like the Mission, which has become ground zero for displacement, you see that as high as 40 percent of the housing stock that could be rented is being Airbnb'ed," said Supervisor David Campos in an interview.
By Airbnb-ing out their apartment one week a month, Connors and her roommate could clear their four-thousand-dollar rent. […] Suzette Sundae, a musician wearing a fifties-style swing dress and a white cardigan over her tattoos, said that she ran a vintage-clothing store in Park Slope. When the store’s traffic fell off, she had Airbnb-ed her home.
His response to this underlying anxiety was to escape to Barcelona, a city he had previously written a love song for, where he AirBnBed a flat with the owner (“Like, no one ever does that”). With the opportunity to be anonymous, he could look after himself.
Because two lines mean, yeh, you are all kinds of pregnant. You've basically AirBNB'ed your womb; another human being is setting up camp in your innards.
gloss: To pursue this activity by Airbnb or similar means, whether as a lessor or a lessee.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
neologism
examples: Somehow, we imagine, Mariah Carey’s Airbnb experience is going to be slightly different. Carey is, per Page Six, going to be renting a $10,000-per-night property on Malibu’s “Billionaires’ Beach,” […] Page Six says that she will be Airbnb-ing at least until the end of August, when she leaves for a concert in Israel.
After his lawyer friend forced him to stop hosting, he bought his own home in the area. He was renovating it to turn it into the perfect upscale listing. […] By coincidence, Mark's neighbor was also Airbnb-ing, charging $550 a night for a nearly identical place. Mark was expecting to earn at least that much.
In fact, I’m at my daughter’s house in Nashville—we came down here and quarantined for 12 days, Airbnb’ed, and moved into her house, because she’s about to give birth any second. And I brought my sewing with me—I’m excited for the future.
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