(intransitive) To live temporarily in someone else's home for the purpose of protecting and tending to it in the owner's or tenant's absence.

All the characteristics, conventions and use of colour and language of a company, institution, website etc that serves to make it distinct from others.

A pub; a tavern.

(now chiefly historical, formal) A brothel; a house of prostitution.

(historical) A place of temporary confinement for debtors, kept by a bailiff, where debtors were sponged of all money they had on themselves, before being transferred to debtor's prison.

Alternative form of sponging-house

A small shed-like structure usually adjacent to a barn, typically used to store grain or feed, or for isolation of unruly or lame farm animals.

A garage or a building for a car, typically separate from a house.

A building for keeping a horse and carriage when not in use, separate from the house.

(idiomatic) In financial difficulty because of the excessive cost of owning a house, or because the cost of home ownership forms too high a proportion of household income.