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How to pronounce billet in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms berth, office, place, position, post, situation, spot
Type of business, line of work, line, job, occupation
Has types apprenticeship, associateship, attorneyship, bailiffship, baronetage, bishopry, cadetship, caliphate, captaincy, captainship, cardinalate, cardinalship, chair, chairmanship, chancellorship, chaplaincy, chaplainship, chieftaincy, chieftainship, clerkship, commandership, commandery, comptrollership, consulship, controllership, councillorship, councilorship, counsellorship, counselorship, curacy, curatorship, custodianship, deanery, deanship, directorship, discipleship, editorship, eldership, emirate, episcopate, proctorship, accountantship, admiralty, ambassadorship, apostleship, sinecure, solicitorship, speakership, stewardship, studentship, teachership, thaneship, throne, treasurership, tribuneship, trusteeship, vice-presidency, viceroyship, viziership, wardenship, wardership, womanhood, fatherhood, feudal lordship, foremanship, generalcy, generalship, governorship, headship, hot seat, incumbency, inspectorship, instructorship, internship, judgeship, judicature, khanate, lectureship, legateship, legation, legislatorship, librarianship, lieutenancy, magistracy, magistrature, managership, manhood, marshalship, mastership, mayoralty, messiahship, moderatorship, overlordship, pastorate, pastorship, peasanthood, plum, praetorship, precentorship, preceptorship, prefecture, prelacy, prelature, premiership, presidency, presidentship, primateship, principalship, priorship, proconsulate, proconsulship, academicianship, professorship, protectorship, public office, rabbinate, receivership, rectorate, rectorship, regency, residency, rulership, sainthood, secretaryship, seigneury, seigniory, senatorship
Type Words
Synonyms line, note, short letter
Type of personal letter
Has types excuse
Type Words
Synonyms canton, quarter
Type of lodge, accommodate
Type Words
Type of housing, lodging, living accommodations

Examples of billet

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The Guardian was the perfect billet for someone phobic about being photographed.
From the independent.co.uk
I like this web blog very much, Its a rattling nice billet to read and get info.
From the eatocracy.cnn.com
In 2009, Tubbs added the ghost flames and the polished billet wheels and tires.
From the dailyherald.com
He is delighted with his billet-one where overnight guests are readily tolerated.
From the economist.com
Because the billet moves with the container the frictional forces are eliminated.
From the en.wikipedia.org
We also provide titanium mill products such as billet, bar, sheet, plate and pipe.
From the jobview.monster.com
The solid billet could also be used with a spider die, porthole die or bridge die.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Blunkett swapped his billet in the town hall for a seat in parliament in 1987.
From the guardian.co.uk
The commander will always be Army, with the deputy commander a Marine billet.
From the washingtontimes.com
More examples
  • Quarter: provide housing for (military personnel)
  • Note: a short personal letter; "drop me a line when you get there"
  • Position: a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury"
  • A billet is a term for living quarters to which a soldier is assigned to sleep. Historically, it referred to a private dwelling that was required to accept the soldier.
  • Bar stock, also colloquially known as billet, is a common form of raw purified metal, used by industry to manufacture metal parts and products.
  • Semi-finished casting products are intermediate castings produced in a foundry that need further processing before being a finished good. There are four types: ingots, billets, blooms, and slabs.
  • A girth, sometimes called a cinch (Western riding), is a piece of equipment used to keep the saddle in place on a horse or other animal. It passes under the barrel of the equine, usually attached to the saddle on both sides by two or three leather straps called billets. ...
  • (Billets (film)) Billets is a 1925 silent-era British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and featuring Sydney Fairbrother and Irene Tripod.
  • A short informal letter; A written order to quarter soldiers; to lodge soldiers, usually by order; to lodge, or be quartered, in a private house