billet
noun
lodging for a soldier, student, etc., as in a private home or nonmilitary public building.
will billet
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future tenseof billet.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Why, we're going to have about ten day's rest; we clear off out of here to-morrow to a village about three miles away, and our battalion will billet there.
From Bullets & Billets by Bruce Bairnsfather
He drew a paper from his pocket, and read the address aloud: "'Lady Knob-Kerrick, The Poplars, Putney Hill, will billet sixteen soldiers in her drawing-room, she will also cater for them.'"
From Adventures of Bindle by Herbert George Jenkins
"Sergeant M'Nab," he said, "you and Corporal Downie will billet here."
From All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand by Ian Hay
