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housing

/hou-zing/US // ˈhaʊ zɪŋ //UK // (ˈhaʊzɪŋ) //

房屋,住房,住宅,住屋

Related Words

quarter一季度,季度,一季,一季度的dwelling住所,寓所,住房,住处shelter庇护所,避难所,遮蔽处,遮蔽物house房屋,房子,房子里,房子里的roof屋顶,房顶,顶棚,屋面construction建筑,建设,施工,建筑业habitation住所,居住地,居住环境,住房home家,家里,家园,家中residence居住地,住宅,住所,居住digs挖掘,挖掘机,掘金,挖矿lodgment住宿,住所,住宿费用,住处quarterage季度,阶段性,阶段性的,阶段性成果

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any shelter, lodging, or dwelling place.
    • : houses collectively.
    • : the act of one who houses or puts under shelter.
    • : the providing of houses for a group or community: the housing of an influx of laborers.
    • : anything that covers or protects.
    • : Machinery. a fully enclosed case and support for a mechanism.
    • : Carpentry. the space made in one piece of wood, or the like, for the insertion of another.
    • : Nautical. Also called bury. the portion of a mast below the deck.Also called bury. the portion of a bowsprit aft of the forward part of the stem of a vessel.the doubling of an upper mast.
    • : a niche for a statue.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounplace of accommodation
Synonyms
construction建筑,建设,施工,建筑业digs挖掘,挖掘机,掘金,挖矿dwelling住所,寓所,住房,住处habitation住所,居住地,居住环境,住房home家,家里,家园,家中house房屋,房子,房子里,房子里的lodgment住宿,住所,住宿费用,住处quarter一季度,季度,一季,一季度的residence居住地,住宅,住所,居住roof屋顶,房顶,顶棚,屋面shelter庇护所,避难所,遮蔽处,遮蔽物quarterage季度,阶段性,阶段性的,阶段性成果stopping place停靠点,停靠地点,停靠地,停靠站

Examples

  • Today, in 70 percent of the areas in which it is legal to build housing, it is only legal to build single-family homes.

  • Wilbourn, who left the housing authority in October 2019, declined interview requests from The Capital and ProPublica while she was leading the agency and after she departed.

  • A federal Bureau of Prisons facility in downtown San Diego is the site of nearly 50 coronavirus cases as of late last week after a group of people in a single housing unit were infected with the virus.

  • Again, it would mean the city didn’t need to borrow a big chunk of money and would eventually own a building capable of housing hundreds of employees for decades.

  • Every person in the housing unit has now been tested, said Bureau of Prisons spokesman Justin Long in an e-mail.

  • They selected an “easy mark” who turned out to be an off-duty NYC Housing Authority cop named James Carragher.

  • He first rose to prominence as a lawyer in Queens, who settled a boiling racial dispute over public housing in Forest Hills.

  • He stopped at one point to ask someone directions to a particular housing development.

  • Gurley was gunned down on Nov. 20, when a pair of cops was patrolling the rough housing project.

  • They keep their heads low while running behind a large curtain covering the opening between two housing blocks.

  • Large-scale housing is primarily for married people with growing families.

  • (ii) There are many similar housing settlements in New Zealand.

  • In quickly settled housing areas this community spirit has not yet had time to develop.

  • Housing the Imp, he quietly crossed the lawn to the window, avoiding any sound of footsteps on the gravelled paths.

  • But when I inquired there they informed me that they were housing no English duchess.

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