as in position
an assignment at which one regularly works for pay
found a billet at one of the leading brokerage houses in New York
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as in to house
to provide with living quarters or shelter
every colonial household was expected to billet a British soldier
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Evan A. Laksmana, Foreign Affairs, 3 Sep. 2015
Each of its frames are hand-finished in its English factory, while certain parts are chiseled from solid blocks of billet aluminum.
—Charlie Thomas, Robb Report, 12 Jan. 2024
View Photos All the suspension arms, of unequal-length front and rear, are billet aluminum and attach to the body and upright via ball joints.
—K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2023
The crank and cam were custom cut from bars of solid billet steel.
—Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 19 Oct. 2020
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But the New Order’s demise shrunk the available nonmilitary billets even as the officer corps size remained and then grew—from 46,168 personnel in 2004 to 52,940 in 2009.
—Evan A. Laksmana, Foreign Affairs, 3 Sep. 2015
Each of its frames are hand-finished in its English factory, while certain parts are chiseled from solid blocks of billet aluminum.
—Charlie Thomas, Robb Report, 12 Jan. 2024
View Photos All the suspension arms, of unequal-length front and rear, are billet aluminum and attach to the body and upright via ball joints.
—K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2023
The crank and cam were custom cut from bars of solid billet steel.
—Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 19 Oct. 2020
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“Billet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/billet. Accessed 3 Nov. 2024.
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