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lodgment
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun lodgment has 2 senses
- lodgment(n = noun.communication) lodgement - bringing a charge or accusation against someone; Array is a kind of allegation
- lodgment(n = noun.attribute) lodgement, lodging - the state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily; "the lodgment of the balloon in the tree" is a kind of fastness, fixedness, fixity, fixture, secureness
CIDE DICTIONARY
- The act of lodging, or the state of being lodged. [1913 Webster]"Any particle which is of size enough to make a lodgment afterwards in the small arteries." [1913 Webster]
- A lodging place; a room. [1913 Webster]
- An accumulation or collection of something deposited in a place or remaining at rest. [1913 Webster]
- The occupation and holding of a position, as by a besieging party; an instrument thrown up in a captured position; as, to effect a lodgment. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
lodgment
Location
N location, localization, lodgment, deposition, reposition, stowage, package, collocation, packing, lading, establishment, settlement, installation, fixation, insertion, habitat, environment, surroundings (situation), circumjacence, anchorage, mooring, encampment, plantation, colony, settlement, cantonment, colonization, domestication, situation, habitation, cohabitation, a local habitation and a name, endenization, naturalization, placed, situate, posited, ensconced, imbedded, embosomed, rooted, domesticated, vested in, unremoved, moored, at anchor.
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