housing

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Synonyms: rousing, dousing, sousing, mousing, housling, houseing, horsing, hosing, lousing, chousing, houting

Antonyms: rousing, dousing, sousing, mousing, housling, houseing, horsing, hosing, lousing, chousing, houting

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Noun

1. The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.
   • Housing of homeless families is a priority.
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

1. present participle and gerund of house
   • We are housing the company's servers in Florida.

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