lodgments

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
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
4. (historical) The occupation of a position by a besieging party, and the works thrown up to maintain it.