The word "billet" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used as a noun meaning (1) a written order for lodging and food or (2) a ticket for a show or other event, or as a verb meaning (1) to provide someone with a place to stay and to feed them, or (2) to assign someone to a place or military unit as a temporary duty. Example sentence: The soldier was billeted in a nearby town while he was on leave.
At other times, rooms cost $335 and since it's a favoured billet for actors who don't have a home in LA, the star quota is always high, with regular sightings of Keira Knightley, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Jude Law.
Whether or not he truly helped the war effort, it was a billet that suited him exactly.His chosen profession allowed for a bit more camaraderie in peacetime.
EVERYONE knows that it is not much fun sitting on a corporate board's audit committee, but up to now the compensation committee has been a more comfortable billet.
Still, he knows his billet is more comfortable than his predecessors endured.
In the aerospace industry metal parts are often machined from a solid billet of costly high-grade titanium.
In his billet on the front-lines, he scribbled on a cheap school notebook, sketching out a formula that he sealed in an envelope and posted to the Académie des Sciences in Paris.
In this period the tanka almost completely ousted the chōka, the length of which was indefinite, because the shorter tanka were more suited to the lover's billet-doux or to competitions on prescribed themes.
At the 2006 Labour conference, The Sun's political editor whispered a verbal billet-doux into Tom Watson's ear.
Since then, the billet-doux has shown no sign of rallying.
Delpy seems genuinely torn between two worlds, and, where the Allen of "Manhattan" was lost in reverence for his city, the Parisienne delivers little more than a bitter billet-doux.
Renee's party would soon end, possibly wrapping up at Billet Bar, a nearby biker joint, with adjoining tattoo facilities.
