Definition of "billeting" [billeting]

• Present participle of billet. (verb)

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• "I recall billeting a first-year West Point cadet for a weekend while I was at RMC and seeing a bright ribbon on his grey uniform."
• "Then -- he must have recognised that we were new boys and gullible -- he said that we ought to report ourselves to some one else called the billeting officer."
• "Everybody knows the term "billeting" as applied to soldiers on the march, who are compulsorily quartered on licensed victuallers and others at fixed rates."