Crossword clues for lodgement
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lodgment \Lodg"ment\, n. [Written also lodgement.] [Cf. F. logement. See Lodge, v.]
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The act of lodging, or the state of being lodged.
Any particle which is of size enough to make a lodgment afterwards in the small arteries.
--Paley. A lodging place; a room. [Obs.]
An accumulation or collection of something deposited in a place or remaining at rest.
(Mil.) The occupation and holding of a position, as by a besieging party; an instrument thrown up in a captured position; as, to effect a lodgment.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from French logement (14c.) "accommodation, lodgings," from Old French logier (see lodge (v.)).
Wiktionary
n. (context British English) (alternative spelling of lodgment English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
A lodgement is an enclave taken by and defended by force of arms against determined opposition made by increasing the size of a bridgehead, beachhead or airhead into a substantial defended area, the rear parts of whichat the least are out of direct line of fire.
Example:
- Operation Overlord - the establishment of a large-scale lodgement in Normandy in World War II.
In Ireland a lodgement is an amount lodged to a bank account or "paid in" to a bank account via a "lodgement slip" or "paying in" slip.
In India a lodgement is commonly used for proofs of tax deduction. A "lodgement vendor" is one who will verify proofs (rental receipts, medical receipts) to ensure that they are eligible for deduction as per the rules of Income Tax in India.
In Australia the electronic placing of personal tax returns with the authorities is described as the electronic lodgment (note: alternate spelling) of tax returns.
Lodgement may refer to:
- Lodgement, a military term
- Lodgement (finance), in some countries a banking or tax term
Usage examples of "lodgement".
But all the bombs fell far beyond or far to the right of the lodgement where the lieutenant-captain sat in his pit.
She rode out into an open space where a loose earth-slide denied lodgement to trees and grass.
On the twenty-third the tenaille was stormed, and a lodgement made along the covered way.
That way, the enemy cannot shoot many of us before we gain a lodgement in the town.
As he neared the ground, the balsam, shaken from its lodgement, cracked and fell.
He had his lodgement on the plain, he had driven the first French line into confusion, but now, he knew, there would be a pause.
It would take, if the first lodgement was successful, no more than twenty minutes.
Yet for that lodgement to work the British sentries must be drawn to look the other way, and in that cause men must die at the main gate.
It would be hard, for it was perilously steep, but if there was space for bushes to find lodgement, then a man could follow, and at the top of the cliff there was a brief area of grass between the precipice and the wall.
All this while the shells had been dropping into the water, and shrieking through the air about the vessels, and one or two had found a lodgement in the wheel-house of the transport.
Now Turambar and Hunthor rested a little, but soon the night chilled them, for they were both drenched with water, and they began to seek a way along the stream northwards towards the lodgement of Glaurung.
Kalugin, who was walking briskly towards the lodgements clanking his sabre.
The day before yesterday we were driven out of the lodgements opposite the 5th bastion, and driven out shamefully.
Wisps of snow perpetually blew from lodgements, streaming out on the wind like smoke from candles newly extinguished.
The light was beginning to show in the east as Shef led the rearguard up the final gentle slope to the lodgement that the advance guard had made on the walls of Rome itself, on the very slopes of the Aventine Hill.