lodgment

Noun

lodgment (countable and uncountable, plural lodgments)

1. An area used for lodging; a place in which a person or thing is or can be lodged.
   • 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.1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC
   • The door opened, and Marvel made a frantic effort to obtain a lodgment behind it.1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “chapter 16”, in The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC
2. The condition of being lodged.
   • 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.2000, Nick Mansfield, chapter 2, in Subjectivity: Theories of the Self from Freud to Haraway, New York: University Press, page 25
3. The act of lodging or depositing.
   • Full provision is made by these Acts for the efficient inspection of tea gardens and for the lodgment of complaints by coolies in districts where they are in operation.1893 August 11, Hansard, archived from the original on 12 Feb 2019
   • A suggestive analogy becomes apparent between the first febrile period of the dromedary or straggling types, and the phenomena of lodgment of the virus in the spleen and bone marrow of monkeys after intravenous inoculation.1917 April 21, George Draper, “Acute Poliomyelitis: Early Diagnosis and Serum Therapy”, in The Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 68, number 16, Chicago, Ill., →DOI, page 1155
4. (historical) The occupation of a position by a besieging party, and the works thrown up to maintain it.