I. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After some cheering words to them, Weir went back to his billet and lay down.
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Fundamentalists are looking for a billet back before the Enlightenment.
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He said 99 percent of Air Force billets and 80 percent of Army billets are open to women.
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However, these will be one-piece in future, if the actual billets of maple are deep enough to allow it.
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It was the best way to make a snug billet for himself.
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The billet has to be highly dense and of high integrity and will be used to make new kilogram mass standards.
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We fixed up an old officers' billet and made our club.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A little girl called Jeanne was billeted with us.
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As he stood there one of the Circle longhouses where Bragad's' Wares had been billeted began to blossom with flame.
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I was billeted in a block of flats in St John's Wood - luxurious before the lush fittings had been removed.
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I was billeted in Wolverton during the winter months, when the blackout was most restrictive.
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It was the old sea captain, in whose house Nils had billeted us, who told us.
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Mandeville and Southgate joined us, the soldiers who had accompanied us being billeted elsewhere.
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The meeting lasted two days and the competitors were billeted out in the homes of local schoolchildren.
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There was torchlight in the longhouse where Bragad's men were billeted.