Lodgment

/ˈlɑd͡ʒmənt/ · noun

Meaning

An area used for lodging; a place in which a person or thing is or can be lodged..

Definitions by Sense

1. An area used for lodging; a place in which a person or thing is or can be lodged.
2. The condition of being lodged.
3. The act of lodging or depositing.
4. (military, historical) The occupation of a position by a besieging party, and the works thrown up to maintain it.

Example Sentences

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Rawdon was denied the door by Mr. Bowls; his servants could not get a lodgment in the house at Park Lane; his letters were sent back unopened.

The door opened, and Marvel made a frantic effort to obtain a lodgment behind it.

If the surprisor and the surprisee are mutually astonished, then, indeed, there is a tangle out of which anything may emerge, for two explanations are necessary at the one moment, and two explanations can no more hold the same position in time than two bodies can occupy the same lodgment in space.

In the case of a wood-engraving the reverse takes place. It is not those parts removed by the burin that afford lodgment for the printer's ink, but the surface left standing and untouched by it.

The alarms were real: the West could indeed lose its oldest and most strategic lodgment point in the Arab Middle East […]

Nineteenth-century culture bears witness to a gradually intensifying anxiety about the structure of the self and the security of its lodgment in the world.

2013, Pat J. Barrett, Summary Judgment in Ireland: Principles and Defences, Bloomsbury Professional, section 1.101, https://books.google.ca/books?id=M-yVAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false The court may also decide to grant leave to defend, or to grant a stay on an order for judgment, conditional upon a cash lodgment being made by the defendant.

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