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Grammar : Noun
Spell : hou-zing
Phonetic Transcription : ˈhaʊ zɪŋ



Definition of housing

Origin :
  • "buildings, lodgings," early 14c., husing, from the root of house (n.).
  • noun place of accommodation
Example sentences :
  • The towns can wait a little for their housing, the country cannot.
  • Extract from : « Another Sheaf » by John Galsworthy
  • Drastic improvements in housing, feeding, and sanitation in the towns themselves.
  • Extract from : « Another Sheaf » by John Galsworthy
  • From the housing question to the dearth of servants we feel its baneful effects.
  • Extract from : « The Curse of Education » by Harold E. Gorst
  • Carefully, he settled it into its housing and bolted it down.
  • Extract from : « The Odyssey of Sam Meecham » by Charles E. Fritch
  • The City Council said they wanted the housing property for park purposes.
  • Extract from : « Negro Migration during the War » by Emmett J. Scott
  • There does not appear to be any hard and fast rule as to the housing of the dogs.
  • Extract from : « The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 » by Various
  • But when I inquired there they informed me that they were housing no English duchess.
  • Extract from : « An Onlooker in France 1917-1919 » by William Orpen
  • I thought Sykes was seeing to all that, and housing the people till we could settle with them?'
  • Extract from : « Sarah's School Friend » by May Baldwin
  • Not a nook or corner but is of use in housing some useless personage.
  • Extract from : « The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. » by Washington Irving
  • We have just purchased a superb villa at Nanterre for the housing of our first establishment.
  • Extract from : « The Nabob » by Alphonse Daudet

Synonyms for housing

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