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residential

 adjective
     
Related topics: Geography
res‧i‧den‧tial W3
1SG a residential part of a town consists of private houses, with no offices or factories [↪ suburban]:
a quiet residential neighbourhood
2 relating to homes rather than offices or businesses [↪ domestic]:
telephone services for residential customers
3

residential course/school etc

especially British English if you are on a residential course, you are living in the institution where you are studying
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