lodgment
/ˈlɑd͡ʒmənt/
Meaning
An area used for lodging; a place in which a person or thing is or can be lodged.
An area used for lodging; a place in which a person or thing is or can be lodged.
The act of lodging or depositing.
The condition of being lodged.
The occupation of a position by a besieging party, and the works thrown up to maintain it.
The act of lodging or depositing.
The condition of being lodged.
The occupation of a position by a besieging party, and the works thrown up to maintain it.
Examples
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 […]
Word Forms
lodgments
lodgement
Etymology
From Middle French logement, from loger (“to lodge”) + -ment.