Definition of Housing

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Housing

of House

The act of putting or receiving under shelter; the state of dwelling in a habitation.

That which shelters or covers; houses, taken collectively.

The space taken out of one solid, to admit the insertion of part of another, as the end of one timber in the side of another.

A niche for a statue.

A frame or support for holding something in place, as journal boxes, etc.

That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.

A covering or protection, as an awning over the deck of a ship when laid up.

A houseline. See Houseline.

A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.

An appendage to the hames or collar of a harness.

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Housing Quotations

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
Alvar Aalto

Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.
Hillary Clinton

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.
Robert Kiyosaki

I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.
Sonia Sotomayor

What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
Gwendolyn Brooks

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.
Jello Biafra

The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.
Stephen Gardiner

Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.
Sargent Shriver

Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels, the housing market remains strong and sound. Without the expansion of homeownership and the strength of our housing market, our nation would not have the economic growth we are experiencing today.
Randy Neugebauer

In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion.
John Hume

Housing Translations

housing in French is placement, logeant
housing in German is wohnend, Unterkunft
housing in Italian is alloggiamento
housing in Norwegian is bolig
housing in Swedish is bostad

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