paying guest

Many started out in single-sex “paying guest,” or PG, hostels loosely attached to colleges — private or government housing with shared rooms and food provided by adults seen as secondary parents.

Even if they rise at work, many women end up back in paying guest hostels, with curfews at 9 or 9:30 p.m. and bans on drinking, smoking and male guests.

Then again, she seems to hate everyone who isn't a paying guest, and even for them she merely hides her disdain.

Purchase tickets at the door; $12/members, $15/nonmembers, free/ages under 21 who accompany a paying guest.

There is, in Miss Manners’ vocabulary, no such thing as a paying guest.