billeting
Speech parts
1. billeting - Noun
2. billeting - Verb
Meaning
of Billet
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Aiding the war effort meant transporting and billeting troops; building and supplying arms and munitions; arming, lending and selling ships.
During World War II, Camp Maxey had an area of 36,683 Acres (14,845.08 Hectares), and billeting space for 2,022 Officers, and 42,515 Enlisted Personnel.
Enormous casualties were expected in bombing raids, so children were evacuated from London and other cities en masse to the countryside for compulsory billeting in households.
She said the frontline health workers must approach the management of the state-run hospital which caters to COVID-19 cases, so that they would be included in the list of employees subject for billeting assignment.
The seldom-mentioned prohibits the government from billeting soldiers in private homes with the homeowner’s consent in times of peace, “nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.”