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Billeting

Billet \Bil"let\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Billeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Billeting.] [From Billet a ticket.] (Mil.) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge. Hence: To quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses.

Billeted in so antiquated a mansion.
--W. Irving.

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billeting

alt. (present participle of billet English) n. The lodging of soldiers. vb. (present participle of billet English)

Usage examples of "billeting".

After breakfast, Sergeant Major Gabbard had the teams square away their billeting area, then he took them into the hangar next door to show them the Global Hawk.

And one of the infantry Captains, he has been maintaining two hundred of his men at his own expense, I think that the others forced him to go along with the billeting scheme by threats.

We'll enter the city tomorrow, and I'll call you together then to settle billeting and other arrangements.

The billeting was restricted to families with kids of their own, or people who were known foster parents.

And there were some people who were just not suitable for billeting: large family groups, the elderly, people who had been undergoing 'care in the community', and the plain irascible who didn't want to be billeted anyhow—under which category Ted would place the old guy with the yapping Alsatian, and himself and his diminished family.

I have two second lieutenants here with orders for flight training who tell me that you sent them here for billeting.

He felt as if he had been asleep for hours-perhaps it was the billeting clerk pounding on his door because he got no answer on the wake-up call.

It had nothing to do with Fairchild at all-as a matter of fact, it will probably take some fast explaining to someone when the billeting folks find you gone suddenly.

NELMS AIR FORCE BASE, LAs VEGAs, NEvADA It was late in the evening when Harold Briggs escorted McLanahan from his small, musty billeting room to another building a few hundred yards away.

The SHAEP billeting officer had been informed that the Chambers News Service ultimately planned to have six to eight female employees with correspondent status stationed in London.

The SHAEF billeting officer had not been told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, which was that the Chambers News Service had no plans at all to station any additional female correspondents in London.

Ann Chambers had had the London bureau chief tell the billeting officer the story of the five to seven soon-to-arrive female accredited correspondents not because she was the spoiled daughter of a very rich man who considered herself entitled to private quarters (in fact, the other two bedrooms were more often than not occupied by room less journalists of both sexes), but because Ann intended to share her own bed, whenever possible, with Richard Canidy, and she didn't want anybody around when that might happen.

A double-decker London bus had been driven onto the field to transport the arriving passengers to SHAEF Billeting.

It was ten feet tall and festooned with lettered arrows, and it gave the direction and miles to Washington, Berlin, Tokyo, Moscow, as well as to the mess, the club, and the officers' and billeting areas within the huge mansion.

All the way to the field, the general gave the Russian clandestine service officer instructions on details that had to be covered: Dotensk's arrival from Baghdad, the plans for billeting and feeding the PFLP volunteers, and arrangements for meeting the Department V alumni when they arrived from Sevastopol.