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billet

[ US /ˈbɪɫət, ˈbɪɫɪt/ ]
[ UK /bˈɪlɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. provide housing for (military personnel)
NOUN
  1. lodging for military personnel (especially in a private home)
  2. a job in an organization
    he occupied a post in the treasury
  3. 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.
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