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Definition of housing:
- A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.
- A covering or protection, as an awning over the deck of a ship when laid up.
- A frame or support for holding something in place, as journal boxes, etc.
- A houseline. See Houseline.
- A niche for a statue.
- An appendage to the hames or collar of a harness.
- of House
- That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.
- That which shelters or covers; houses, taken collectively.
- The act of putting or receiving under shelter; the state of dwelling in a habitation.
- The space taken out of one solid, to admit the insertion of part of another, as the end of one timber in the side of another.
Synonyms:
home, agency, encasement, quarters, shelter, block grant, pod, installation, under someone's roof, bungalow, domicile, boarding house, cantonment, lodgment, abode, apartment building, caparison, protection, jacket, apartment, home construction, headquarters, eldercare, domesticity, stopping place, lodgement, sheath, shell, trappings, accommodations, domiciliary, problem of providing houses, husk, cocoon, case work, cover, capsule, housings, chalet, encasement, bunkhouse, adobe, caring profession, protection, health care, house-building program, sheltering, casing, household, lodging, cabin, billet, trapping, digs, hull, community care, armor, domestic, meals on wheels, chateau, health service, living accommodations, covering, roof, shelter, house.
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occupancy (part of speech: noun)
- lodging,
- staying,
- colonization,
- occupation,
- quartering,
- habitation,
- tenancy,
- inhabitation,
- squatting,
- residence,
- roosting,
- dwelling
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occupying (part of speech: verb)
- inhabiting,
- colonizing,
- squatting,
- occupying,
- roosting,
- quartering,
- dwelling,
- residing,
- lodging,
- billeting,
- staying
Usage examples:
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Johnson wants to know where to get the new housing to replace the one that broke yesterday?
- "The Iron Woman", Margaret Deland. -
Assurances were frequent that Cabinet was worried about the housing of the Library, and whenever possible an extra room was given.
- "Report of the Chief Librarian for the Year Ended 31 March 1958: Special Centennial Issue", J. O. Wilson and General Assembly Library (New Zealand). -
Recommendations for an appropriation of $ 6, 166, 000 for new housing made to the previous Congress failed to pass.
- "State of the Union Addresses of Calvin Coolidge", Calvin Coolidge.