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- verb US Present participle of
billet .
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Examples
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I recall billeting a first-year West Point cadet for a weekend while I was at RMC and seeing a bright ribbon on his grey uniform.
Archive 2006-10-01 2006
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Then -- he must have recognised that we were new boys and gullible -- he said that we ought to report ourselves to some one else called the billeting officer.
A Padre in France George A. Birmingham 1907
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Everybody knows the term "billeting" as applied to soldiers on the march, who are compulsorily quartered on licensed victuallers and others at fixed rates.
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Whiteman, with a base employment of 8,353, also has excess capacity for billeting, meaning it will not need to construct new housing.
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A "billeting" container, for example, holds everything from tents and cots to a garden rake and fly swatter.
Stars and Stripes 2009
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They all get their own billeting just like we do women.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Light at the End of the DADT Tunnel 2010
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And they are already working and billeting with homosexuals.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Light at the End of the DADT Tunnel 2010
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And they are already working and billeting with homosexuals.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Light at the End of the DADT Tunnel 2010
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The chain of events is triggered by the billeting of captive Italian soldiers in Sari's boyfriend's family home, with all the emotional and sexual opportunities they offer for the women of the village.
Three Who audiobooks yiskah 2009
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The military, more specifically the Army, has a pretty complete policy regarding homosexuality where they are to be removed from the service when discovered which precluded anything regarding billeting.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Light at the End of the DADT Tunnel 2010
kawy commented on the word billeting
"Foxes' excrement." —B.E., Dictionary of the Canting Crew (1699)
September 30, 2015