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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a billet" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts referring to a place of lodging or a position in a military or organizational context.
Example: "After arriving at the base, the soldiers were assigned a billet for their stay."
Alternatives: "a lodging" or "a position".
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So the Rangers set up a "billet" situation, much like junior teams do for their players.
Break of Day is a billet doux to the joys of a simple life.
The writer, Stendhal, had a billet on Didzioji Gatv ee (above what's now the bookshop), but most froze.
There were happier memories – notably Christmas Eve 1944, in a billet at the chateau of a French marquis.
This paper describes a heat transfer model based automatic secondary cooling system for a billet caster.
An investigation into the compression forming of a billet using the commercial code SUPERFORM is developed.
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In those days slinging - changing the position of a line (billet) of hot steel - was done manually with large tongs.
Tonight's "Love Letter," is just that: a billet-doux to remind viewers of what they are not missing.
A billet-doux is so much sweeter than announcing your ambitions on a loudspeaker, which was how this felt.
But we can tell you that the book comes packaged like a billet-doux: fastened with a blue ribbon and secured with an old-fashioned-looking embossed seal.
Of one fellow judge, Montaigne observed, "From the same sheet of paper on which he has just written the sentence against an adulterer, the judge steals a scrap for a billet-doux to his colleague's wife".
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