billeting
- present participle of billet.
Example Sentences
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“No one will be assigned billeting in any unit until all safety and habitability standards are met,” he said.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2022
I went to a desert staging ground to hear a brigadier general talk about unsexy stuff — how to move an army, the basics of feeding, billeting, equipping, transporting.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 2021
Several back while at Edwards AFB..I was speaking with a couple of CPT's in the billeting break area.
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2017
Midwife Edith Smith came to Grantham in 1915 to help tackle prostitution after the billeting of 14,000 soldiers in the area during World War One.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2014
Milo proposes billeting them, singly, here and there, through the carriages; but the bare mention has excited a rebellion amongst the equestrians, who will not consent to be treated worse than the fiddlers!
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Lever, Charles James
