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hutment

American  
[huht-muhnt] / ˈhʌt mənt /

noun

  1. an encampment of huts.


hutment British  
/ ˈhʌtmənt /

noun

  1. military a number or group of huts

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Etymology

Origin of hutment

First recorded in 1885–90; hut + -ment

Example Sentences

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Assigned by General Eisenhower fortnight ago to help bombed-out Londoners through their housing crisis, they had their first temporary hutment erected by last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

They are men of caste status in an army hutment, an odd lot indeed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then the motorcade of vets went to the empty C.W.A.C. hutment at Lansdowne Park, settled another nine families.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the General entered the hutment all of the men stood and uncovered and the band stopped abruptly in the middle of a strain.

From The War Romance of the Salvation Army by Hill, Grace Livingston

Whenever we had got our ordnance issues distributed we entrained for Bourguette on the 28th and from there marched a few miles to a hutment camp at La Lacque.

From The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 by Morrison, F. L.