to billet
3
8.5
- verb
- /ˈbɪlɪt/
- Jargon
:
alojar
- Many soldiers were billeted with families who provided them a place to sleep and meals during their deployment.
- soldiers were billeted
- troops were billeted
Examples
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No, only the officers will be billeted inside the house.
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Corporal O'Reilly, you're not billeting these enlisted men in the officers' area, are you?
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Sir, the fact is, I am sorry to say, and with great regret... ... that my orders are to billet an officer in your home.
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I have been billeted with you.
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Will you talk to Mr. Donovan about where to billet his men?
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My troop is to be billeted here.
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The Captain undertakes to protect your village from all other soldiers... on condition that he and his men be well-billeted for the winter.
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They billeted me with a Baker.
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We were billeted at a reception center on wire bunks, no mattresses.
Fiction book (1990) -
Detachments were billeted on the fincas and even paid as a sort of semiprivate security guard by the landowner whose land they were protecting.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
4
6.8
To give people a place to stay, often soldiers
To give soldiers a place to live, often in houses or barracks
To put people, especially soldiers, into a shared building to live
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
As a verb, billet comes from the same 'small note' idea: to 'billet' someone was to give a written order for a house, so today to billet is to assign someone lodging.