housing

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Buildings where people live, considered as a group.

   The city is building more affordable housing for young families.

2. 2
   noun

   A hard cover that protects or holds a mechanical part.

   The gears were grinding against their metal housing.

3. 3
   verb

   Present participle of house: to provide a place for people or things to stay.

   We are housing the company's servers in a secure data center.

From Middle English housynge, housinge, from housen (“to house, shelter; receive into one's house”), equivalent to house + -ing. Cognate with Scots housing (“housing”), Old Frisian hūsinge (whence Saterland Frisian Huzenge); compare also Dutch huizing, behuizing (“housing”), Low German husing, hüsing (“housing”), German Behausung (“housing”), Swedish inhysing (“housing”).

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