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allodgements

allodgements is the plural of allodgement.

Meaning of allodgement

Noun

allodgement (countable and uncountable, plural allodgements)

  1. (countable, obsolete) A place where a soldier is assigned to lodge; billet.
    • The Serieant Maior of a Regiment vpon all encampments or allodgements of the Armie is to attend the Serieant-Maier of the Field, & when the Campe is deuided out into Regiments, he with his Quarter-Master shall take the Regiment belonging to his colonell according to his Colonels antiquitie or...1622, Five Decades of Epistles of Warre, page 144
  2. (uncountable) The state or condition of being lodged.
    • Competition in this, as in every department of human industry, has secured the allodgement of 200 models of different machines for the same purpose, in our Patent Oflice—each inventor claiming to have excelled his competitors in the production of the best article.1860, New York (State). Legislature. Assembly, Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, page 690

Questions about allodgements

What is allodgements the plural of?
Allodgements is the plural of allodgement.

Words near allodgements in the dictionary

  1. allodeterminant
  2. allodeterminants
  3. allodge
  4. allodged
  5. allodgement
  6. allodgements
  7. allodges
  8. allodging
  9. allodia
  10. allodial
  11. allodial title

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