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   billet

   /ˈbɪlɪt/

   noun

   • 1. a place, especially a civilian's house, where soldiers are lodged temporarily: "the sergeant gave them leave to rest while officers went in search of billets"
   • ▪ a place to stop or stay: "the young people's stay at each of their billets was short"

   verb

   • 1. lodge (soldiers) in a particular place, especially a civilian's house: "most of the army was billeted within the town"
   • ▪ assign temporary accommodation to: "the American team was billeted at Uxbridge"

   Word Origin late Middle English (originally denoting a short written document): from Anglo-Norman French billette, diminutive of bille (see bill1). The verb is recorded in the late 16th century, and the noun sense, ‘a written order requiring a householder to lodge the bearer, usually a soldier’, from the mid 17th century; hence the current meaning.

   Derivatives

   • 1. billetee noun
   • 2. billeter noun

   Scrabble Points: 8

   • B

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   • I

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   • L

     1

   • L

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   • E

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   • T

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