bed and board
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In August 2023, Alex Chalk, then Conservative Justice Secretary, scrapped the policy of taking bed and board deductions from all future payouts.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2025
"A few of the luckier poor people got bed and board in the hospital for life. Selection criteria would have been a mix of material want, local politics, and spiritual merit."
From Science Daily ● Dec. 1, 2023
In 1991, after dropping out of high school, Cantu was offered free bed and board by Bill and Jan Miller, a Portland couple who offered help to teenagers in need of support.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 6, 2018
Her parents argued she would have done no better financially had she worked away from the farm, insisting she earned a fair income and received free bed and board.
From BBC ● May 19, 2016
Reached Grand Island, where I was accommodated at a private house with bed and board.
From Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel by Willard W. Glazier
