noun, verb
noun a place, often in a private house, where soldiers live temporarily:
The troops are all in billets (= not in camps or barracks).
verb [V+adv./prep.] [usuallypassive] to send soldiers to live somewhere temporarily, especially in private houses during a war:
The troops were billeted in the town with local families.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for billet is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does billet appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — billet appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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