- accommodationUK Our holiday accommodation was not up to standard.
- place to stayIf you need a place to stay, I have a spare room.
- lodgingOur lodging on the estate wasn't free: we had to help with household tasks in payment.
- lodgingsAfter work she returned to her lodgings on the outskirts of town.
- digsUK I had digs in Jesus Lane, not far from college.
Meaning of billet in English
Examples of billet
billet
These comprised health visitors, head teachers, housing managers, social workers, billeting officers, representatives of voluntary organizations, and local government officers.
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Very few billets are now missing, testifying to the high level of the hospital's administrative organization.
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Its soldiers lived in barracks or billets, often far from home.
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The secondary sample, introduced on page 13 and in note 34, consists of the 1,056 foundlings whose age information came from billets and notes (above).
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Again, the billets offer an opportunity to reflect on issues which were never explicitly investigated by the hospital governors.
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Larval size is checked at 21 days by peeling back bark at one end of the billet and measuring the width of the feeding galleries.
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The billets are again processed in the cleaning stations before shipment by rail or road to the mill.
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This source is the entry billet filled in for each and every entrant.
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The billet was therefore vital in establishing the child's identity and hospital number, allowing its current whereabouts to be traced.
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Any note or token left with the child was kept with the billet, which was folded and sealed and marked with the child's number.
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Of the 1,650 billets sampled, 299 (18 per cent) included notes which contain information as to the legitimacy of the child.
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This supposition can be examined with the data from the billets and notes.
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The entry billets, however, permit a more detailed study of the children's backgrounds, giving also more precise information on the characteristics implied by this initial study.
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Wilson's reason was that the transcription of such detail for all the 1,365 billets being used was not possible.
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Second, infested billets must be stored and monitored carefully, because the developing larvae are subject to predation from rodents and ants, particularly when the bark splits as it dries.
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logement (chez l’habitant), cantonner…
askerin konakladığı özel mülk, kalacak yer sağlamak…
kwartier, inkwartieren…
ubytování (pro vojáky), ubytovat…
kvarter, indkvartering, indkvartere…
asrama tentara, memberi tempat menginap…
ค่ายพักชั่วคราว, จัดค่ายพักชั่วคราว…
chỗ trú chân của bộ đội, cho bộ đội trú chân…
kwatera, zakwaterować…
kvarter, inkvartering, inkvarterad…
tempat tumpangan, memberi penginapan pada…
das Quartier, einquartieren…
kvarter, innkvartering, anvise kvarter…
приміщення для постою, розквартировувати…
