live in (with someone)

live in (with someone)
live in (with someone)
[for servants or lovers] to live in a residence that one might be expected only to visit rather than reside in. •

Their maid lives in with them.

She lived in for a few months before they were married.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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