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单词 lodgment
释义 lodg·ment
noun
or lodge·ment \ˈläjmənt\
(-s)
Etymology: Middle French logement, from Old French, from logier to lodge + -ment — more at lodge
1.
 a. obsolete : quarters for soldiers
 b. obsolete : an entrenchment or other defensive work thrown up on a captured advance position as protection against attack
 c.
  (1) : the occupation and holding of a position in hostile or disputed territory
   < had a very stiff fight all day to make any lodgment at all — Sir Winston Churchill >
  (2) : an act resembling that of a lodgment by armed troops
   < they were able to find lodgment in corners where no monastery could have supported itself — R.W.Southern >
2.
 a. : a place usually a building for lodging or protecting something : shelter
  < a hut built years ago for temporary lodgment of cattlemen herding — Horace Kephart >
 b.
  (1) : accommodations, lodgings
   < found temporary lodgments in Paris — W.H.Auden >
  (2) archaic : accommodations provided in an inn
   < the miserable lodgment and miserable fare of a provincial inn — Washington Irving >
3.
 a. : the act, fact, or manner of lodging
 b. : a placing, depositing, or coming to rest
  < the lodgment of the balloon in the tree >
4.
 a. : an accumulation or collection of something deposited in a place or remaining at rest
  < the plains on both sides are covered at this season by heavy lodgments of water — Henry Beveridge >
 b. : a place of rest or deposit : a securely established position
  < O.K. has gained lodgment in practically all civilized languages — Thomas Pyles >
 c. : a firm emplacement of glacial till
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