Meaning & use
billet
Lodging assigned to a soldier or member of the armed forces, often in a private home or nonmilitary building.
See it in a sentence
The soldiers found their billet in a farmhouse just outside the village.
During the war, many families took in evacuees as a kind of civilian billet.
A note on using this word
Billet is mostly a military and historical term, referring specifically to temporary lodging assigned by authority, not any ordinary housing.
Words with a similar meaning
lodgingquarters
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Another way to use it
2. verb
To provide lodging for soldiers or others, especially in a private home.
Local families were asked to billet soldiers during the harsh winter campaign.
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