billet
noun
lodging for a soldier, student, etc., as in a private home or nonmilitary public building.
billets
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present tense formof billet (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Carter’s decision to open combat billets to women upended policy as old as the U.S. military itself: Women could only support, not fight in, America’s wars.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2022
Still, there have been well-documented success stories, with several women completing the notoriously grueling training for elite special operations billets.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 26, 2021
The caster is so large that it sits in its own eight-story warehouse, forming the molten steel into long rectangular blocks called billets and then cooling them.
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2018
Mattis preferred to be close to the fighting, saying he disdains "chateau generals," a World War I phrase for commanders who stayed in comfortable billets while their troops fought in the trenches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2016
As it turns dark we go to our billets, Tjaden in the centre.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
