Object

• soldier: There were a lot of soldiers billeted in Fairford; the cook's husband was overseas in the Army.

• troop: Many services and prayer meetings were held in our Church for troops billeted here or moving through the area to go abroad.

• officer: They were full of evacuees - billeting officer 's went round knocking on doors, asking how many rooms have you got?

Converse of object

• find: Endeavor to find billets for No 1 in the afternoon and get wet through.

• have: Had an excellent billet next room to the mess.

Adjective modifier

• solid: The base plate was machined from a solid aluminum billet.

• new: When the CRE dismissed me I thankfully set off for our new billet, arriving about midnight.

• good: The rest of us followed on Friday relying on our mates to have blagged a good billet.

Modifies a noun

• aluminum: Machined from billet aluminum with 8 dimples these trims can be fitted in a few seconds without any tools.

• aluminum: This noble alloy is found in the magnesium generator cover with titanium screws and dedicated sprocket cover of billet aluminum.

Modifying Another Word

• there: I was the junior member of 78 Squad which joined in 1941, the year in which the School was billeted there.

• here: Many services and prayer meetings were held in our Church for troops billeted here or moving through the area to go abroad.

Noun used with modifier

• aluminum: The base plate was machined from a solid aluminum billet.

• steel: The works rolled steel billets from the 1930's to 1964.

Preposition: in

• village: In Europe I was billeted in a village on the banks of the river Elbe about 40 miles form Hamburg.

• house: For the first winter the men were billeted in private houses in the area east of Egerton Road, North Shore.

• town: He was then billeted in the town of Colchester.

Preposition: of

• material: Imagine a rectangular billet of material on the mill table.

Preposition: with

• family: By the end of the war Lionel Blue had been billeted with a dozen families.

Preposition: for

• night: At Truro, we went to find the Carlton Hotel, our billet for the night.