[
US
/ˈbɪɫət, ˈbɪɫɪt/
]
[ UK /bˈɪlɪt/ ]
[ UK /bˈɪlɪt/ ]
VERB
- provide housing for (military personnel)
NOUN
- lodging for military personnel (especially in a private home)
-
a job in an organization
he occupied a post in the treasury -
a short personal letter
drop me a line when you get there
How To Use billet In A Sentence
- The tundishes are used to feed liquid steel to Nucor's four-strand billet caster.
- The Billet is a small elongated rectangular figure supposed to represent a billet or letter, and to some, a brick.
- When extrusions of the highest quality are required, as in strong alloy aircraft parts, extrusion billets may be scalped before shipment to remove surface liquation.
- Sources say it was written on the stationery of the Zamboanga hotel in which the negotiating party was billeted.
- Every bullet has its billet.
- So I thought it was time to share my riches; hence the following billet-doux on New Zealand skifields.
- The billets for these Russian soldiers were at No.6 the Bund, previously the P&O Banking Corp (now the Yangtze River Navigation Co building).
- Rita stopped at the house where she was billeted.
- Because they favor smaller barrels, their bats are made from a heavier billet - the cylindrical piece of wood from which a bat is shaped.
- There Alistair met his first Americans - seven young soldiers billeted in his house and made Alfred their mascot.