Definitions for housing
ˈhaʊ zɪŋhous·ing

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)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

2. Housing(noun)

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

3. Housing(noun)

   that which shelters or covers; houses, taken collectively

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

5. Housing(noun)

   a niche for a statue

6. Housing(noun)

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

7. Housing(noun)

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

8. Housing(noun)

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

9. Housing(noun)

   a houseline. See Houseline

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

11. Housing(noun)

    an appendage to the hames or collar of a harness

Origin: [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.

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. John Caulfield:

   Not bad for public housing.

2. Lawrence Yun:

   Housing shortage is still present.

3. Samuel Hamilton:

   We see so many people coming home without housing.

4. Bennie Thompson:

   It can be the affordable-housing-availability option.

5. Peter Cachola Schmal:

   We don't have a refugee crisis, we have a housing crisis.

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