billet

The spot premium for low-carbon billet, a fabricated product often used in construction, has slid to zero from $30 a tonne in January, he said.

From Reuters ● Dec. 17, 2022

Some critics dubbed her the border czar — a title she has resoundingly rejected, insisting her billet stops south of the border.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 13, 2021

“When he was here, we would go for drives and he would sing, he would dance, he would laugh,” said his billet mom, Kim Pagé.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2021

One of the first things he did was inform his coaches and billet families from his time in Everett.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2021

One man called out, “But Reb Boruch, why would they billet soldiers here if they are needed elsewhere for the war?”

From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen

But outfoxing competition from the private sector has proven elusive, particularly in cybersecurity jobs, even though the military offers tens of thousands of dollars in bonuses for such billets.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2022

Many were paid more, too: At boarding school they had received vocational training that qualified them for better billets, as carpenters’ mates, shipwrights, blacksmiths, electricians and colliers, among others.

From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2021

Still, there have been well-documented success stories, with several women completing the notoriously grueling training for elite special operations billets.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 26, 2021

Mattis preferred to be close to the fighting, saying he disdains "chateau generals," a World War I phrase for commanders who stayed in comfortable billets while their troops fought in the trenches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2016

We stroll over to the meadow behind the billets.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

Stupnikov slipped away and buried the compromised device—one of three in his possession—in the garden of the house where he was billeted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

As the soldiers were billeted with local families between 1943 and 1944, Ms Fernandez said she was hoping someone may recognise Pte Cole's name or photograph.

From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2023

More than 20,000 National Guard troops are billeted in the nation’s capital to keep peace during the inauguration.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2021

Extra police have been billeted in two cruise ships in Barcelona harbor.

From Reuters ● Oct. 24, 2017

Three mothers with seven children, all from the Hackney area of London, had been billeted on the Tallis family.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

I went to a desert staging ground to hear a brigadier general talk about unsexy stuff — how to move an army, the basics of feeding, billeting, equipping, transporting.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 2021

Several back while at Edwards AFB..I was speaking with a couple of CPT's in the billeting break area.

From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2017

Midwife Edith Smith came to Grantham in 1915 to help tackle prostitution after the billeting of 14,000 soldiers in the area during World War One.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2014

“Unfortunately, they were engineering personnel and they were building billeting for the A.N.A.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2013

Forced loans, billeting and martial law—all directly connected with the maintenance of the army—formed the main substance of the grievances set forth in the Petition of Right.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various