Definitions for housing
ˈhaʊ zɪŋhous·ing

Princeton's WordNet(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. housing, lodging, living accommodations(noun)

   structures collectively in which people are housed

2. housing(noun)

   a protective cover designed to contain or support a mechanical component

3. caparison, trapping, housing(noun)

   stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. housing(Noun)

   The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.

2. housing(Noun)

   Residences, collectively.

   She lives in low-income housing.

3. housing(Noun)

   A mechanical component's container or covering.

   The gears were grinding against their housing.

4. housing(Noun)

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

5. housing(Noun)

   An appendage to the hames or collar of a harness.

Webster Dictionary(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Housing

   of House

   Etymology: [From Houss.]

2. Housing(noun)

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

   Etymology: [From Houss.]

3. Housing(noun)

   that which shelters or covers; houses, taken collectively

   Etymology: [From Houss.]

4. Housing(noun)

   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

   Etymology: [From Houss.]

5. Housing(noun)

   a niche for a statue

   Etymology: [From Houss.]

6. Housing(noun)

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

   Etymology: [From Houss.]

7. Housing(noun)

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

   Etymology: [From Houss.]

8. Housing(noun)

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

   Etymology: [From Houss.]

9. Housing(noun)

   a houseline. See Houseline

   Etymology: [From Houss.]

10. Housing(noun)

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

    Etymology: [From Houss.]

11. Housing(noun)

    an appendage to the hames or collar of a harness

    Etymology: [From Houss.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Housing

   howz′ing, n. an ornamental covering for a horse: a saddle-cloth: (pl.) the trappings of a horse. [O. Fr. housse, a mantle, of Teut. origin.]

U.S. National Library of Medicine(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Housing

   Living facilities for humans.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. housing

   A small line formed of three fine strands, smaller than rope yarn; principally used for seizings of the block-strops, fastening the clues of sails to their bolt-ropes, and other purposes. (See MARLINE, TWINE.)

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. housing

   Cover or cloth over or under a horse’s saddle used for cleanliness, or as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddle-cloth; a horse-cloth.

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. housing

   A type of apartment, cottage, house, bungalow, cabin, family pod, grandparents pod, property or appropriate structure for a person, people or family to live or reside in.

   Housing is a vital human right for every human being, we all have a right to housing as a human right.

   Submitted by MaryC on January 7, 2020  

2. housing

   Verb form of the word house.

   To build housing is easy as it creates a form of human rights, employment and certainty.

   Submitted by MaryC on July 19, 2020  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'housing' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1703

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'housing' in Written Corpus Frequency: #989

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'housing' in Nouns Frequency: #711

How to pronounce housing?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say housing in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of housing in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of housing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of housing in a Sentence

1. Stephen Moore:

   There's that great cartoon going along, that The New York Times headline :' First thing Donald Trump does as President is kick a black family out of public housing,' and it has Obama leaving the White House. I mean, I just love that one.

2. Sherrilyn Ifill:

   There is a huge divide that exists between us, our country remains deeply segregated and we need not only provisions of the Fair Housing Act to be intact, but we need aggressive, and affirmative enforcement of the act by the federal government and by state jurisdictions.

3. The Pentagon:

   DOD personnel will not be directly in contact with the evacuees and evacuees will not have access to any base location other than their assigned housing.

4. Sergut Adamu:

   We can't think for a minute that we can afford private housing, we would have to win the lottery.

5. Greg Scharff:

   What the council is proposing is that we work together to fund and subsidize, what is basically middle-class housing ; which, traditionally, has not been subsidized.

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