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billet

\BIL-it\ , noun;
1.Lodging for soldiers.
2.An official order directing that a soldier be provided with lodging.
3.A position of employment; a job.transitive
verb: 1.To quarter, or place in lodgings.
2.To serve (a person) with an official order to provide lodging for soldiers.
intransitive verb: 1.To be quartered; to lodge.
名词 n. [C]
1.向军人提供住宿处的书面命令
The townspeople received billets ordering them to lodge the regiment overnight.
镇民接到命令,要为一团官兵提供一夜住宿。
2.(军营以外的)士兵住宿处
The old mansion served as the soldiers' billet for a week.
士兵在那所古宅里住了一个星期。
3.给海员指定的睡铺
4.职位,工作,地位
He landed a lucrative billet with a publishing house.
他在一家出版社里谋到一个报酬很高的职位。
5.【古】短简,便条
及物动词 vt.
1.分配(士兵等)住宿地[(+on)]
The captain billeted his soldiers on old Mrs. Smith.
那上尉分派士兵住在史密斯老太太的房子里。
2.把提供住宿处的命令送交
3.委派,任命
不及物动词 vi.
1.投宿;驻扎

Quotes:
When he was well enough, he was retrieved back to his billet in the American zone.
~Frances Stonor Saunders, The Cultural Cold War
Louisa stayed at the hospital to be near him, while the younger children were billeted at a nearby house with their Irish governess.
~Douglas Botting, Gerald Durrell
We arrived jet-lagged at Tan Son Nhut airport where someone met us and hurried us off to wherever we were billeted, usually a villa on one of the wide residential boulevards that reminded everyone of a French provincial city.
~Ward Just, A Dangerous Friend

Origin:
Billet is from Medieval French billette, from Old French bullette, diminutive of bulle, "a document," from Medieval Latin bulla, "a document."