DCHP-2

efficiency unit DCHP-2 (October 2016)

• n. — North American in origin, Housing

  a small hotel room or apartment with kitchenette and bathroom.

  Type: 5. Frequency — The term is a positive name for a very small dwelling. These “units” are typically smaller than one-room apartments with full cooking and washing facilities (Canada: bachelor apartment, US: studio), and appear most frequently in Canada, followed by the US (see Chart 1), where efficiency apartment is the term of choice.
  See also COD-2, which labels the term" Cdn (esp. US efficiency apartment)", Gage-5, s.v. "efficiency apartment", ITP Nelson, s.v. "efficiency apartment".

  See also: bachelor apartment  two-and-a-half