Housing (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. any shelter, lodging, or dwelling place.
  2. houses collectively.
  3. the act of one who houses or puts under shelter.
  4. the providing of houses for a group or community: the housing of an influx of laborers.
  5. anything that covers or protects.
  6. a fully enclosed case and support for a mechanism.
  7. the space made in one piece of wood, or the like, for the insertion of another.
  8. Nautical.
    • the portion of a mast below the deck.
    • the portion of a bowsprit aft of the forward part of the stem of a vessel.
    • the doubling of an upper mast.
  9. a niche for a statue.
noun
  1. a covering of cloth for the back and flanks of a horse or other animal, for protection or ornament.
  2. the trappings on a horse.
noun
    • houses or dwellings collectively
    • (as modifier)
  2. the act of providing with accommodation
  3. a hole, recess, groove, or slot made in one wooden member to receive another
  4. a part designed to shelter, cover, contain, or support a component, such as a bearing, or a mechanism, such as a pump or wheel
  5. another word for houseline
noun
  1. (often plural) archaic another word for trappings (def. 2)
Housing (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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