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lodging (iou) and Extractive Industry (money)


lodging (iou)



lodging noun. ME.
[from LODGE verb + -ING1.]
I.
a. A place or building in which a person lodges or resides; a dwelling; Scot. a self-contained house. Formerly also, a bedroom; a (military) encampment. ME.
b. A prison, a hospital; a prison cell. LME-L17.
c. The lair of a buck or stag. L16-E17.
Dwelling, abode, esp. of a temporary Nature. Chiefly in make lodging. take one's lodging, take up one's lodging. LME-E17.
Accommodation in hired rooms or a lodging-house (freq. in board and lodging); temporary or overnight accommodation. Formerly, permanent residential accommodation. LME.
board and lodging: see BOARD noun.
b. Material to lie or sleep on. L17-E18.
In pl.
a. Military quarters; a defensive position. LME-L17.
b. A room or set of rooms in another person's house or (formerly) an inn or hotel where a person lodges. M17.
c. An official residence; esp. that of the head of certain Oxford colleges. M17.
Judges' lodgings a house which was the residence of the assize judge when he came for the assizes.
II.
The action of LODGE verb. E16.
Comb.: lodging-house a house in which lodgings are let (model lodging-house: see MODEL adjective 1); lodging-room (now local) a bedroom; lodging turn an occasion or period for which a railway employee has to lodge at the destination before returning to the place of departure.

Extractive Industry (money)


Definition: Industry that involves the mining of minerals.