HOUSING

Housing

Housing generally refers to the social problem of insuring that members of society have a home to live in, whether this is a house, or some other kind of dwelling, lodging, or shelter. Many governments have a department that deals with housing, such as the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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housing

Noun

  1. The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.
  2. Residences, collectively.
    She lives in low-income housing.
  3. A mechanical component's container or covering.
    The gears were grinding against their housing.
  4. A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.
  5. An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness.
  6. The space taken out of one solid to admit the insertion of part of another, such as the end of one timber in the side of another.
  7. A niche for a statue.
  8. That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.
  9. A houseline.

Verb

housing

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