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What does billeted mean?

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Verb
  1. (US) simple past tense and past participle of billet
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We were billeted out privately, although some were in Hamer's Commercial Hotel.
But completion was stymied for 22 years by Charles Edward Stuart who billeted his army in the city on his way from Derby to Culloden.
While the Mayor was busy talking with other dignitaries, the young people were billeted with Japanese families.
During the Second World War troops of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment were billeted in the hall.
A soldier, Private John Scofield, billeted at a nearby inn wandered into Blake's garden and words were exchanged.
As far back as the Napoleonic Wars era, queers from London would leave their closeted lives to romp with the legions of soldiers billeted here.

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