The practice or process of assigning and providing temporary lodging for soldiers, travelers, or other people in private homes or buildings.
Present participle of 'billet'. The term became standardized in English during the 17th century when armies needed to be housed without permanent barracks, making civilian billeting essential to military logistics.
Billeting is one of those unglamorous but crucial aspects of military history—entire wars' outcomes depended on successfully billeting troops, and communities' survival sometimes depended on managing the billeted soldiers living in their homes.
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