housing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaʊzɪŋ/, /ˈhaʊsɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -aʊzɪŋ, -aʊsɪŋ

Etymology 1

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

Noun

housing (countable and uncountable, plural housings)

1. (uncountable) The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.
2. (uncountable) Residences, collectively.

   She lives in low-income housing.

3. (countable) A mechanical component's container or covering.

   The gears were grinding against their housing.

4. A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.
5. An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness.
6. (architecture) The space taken out of one solid to admit the insertion of part of another, such as the end of one timber in the side of another.
7. A niche for a statue.
8. (nautical) That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.
9. (nautical) A houseline.

Etymology 2

From house +‎ -ing.

Verb

housing

1. present participle and gerund of house

   We are housing the company's servers in Florida.

Synonyms

• (houses, collectively): accommodation, lodging
• (mechanical component's container): case, casing, cover, covering, lid

Derived terms

• affordable housing
• bell housing, bellhousing
• council housing
• housing commission
• housing estate
• housing project
• housing stock
• inclusionary housing
• open housing
• public housing
• security housing unit
• social housing
• subsidized housing
• tract housing

 

Translations

activity of enclosing or providing residence

• Bulgarian: подслон (bg) m (podslon)
• Catalan: habitatge (ca) m, allotjament (ca) m
• French: logement (fr) m
• Hungarian: lakásépítés (hu), lakhatás (hu), lakásügy (hu), lakáshelyzet (hu), lakásviszonyok (hu) pl, elhelyezés (hu)
• Irish: tithíocht f
• Occitan: abitatge m
• Spanish: alojamiento (es) m
• Tagalog: pabahay

residences

• Bulgarian: жилище (bg) n (žilište)
• Catalan: habitatge (ca) m, vivenda (ca) f
• French: logement (fr) m, résidence (fr) f
• German: Wohnungen (de) f pl
• Hungarian: lakás (hu), ház (hu), szállás (hu)
• Irish: tithíocht f, tithe (ga) m pl
• Maori: wharenoho
• Russian: жильё (ru) n (žilʹjó)
• Spanish: vivienda (es) f

container

• Bulgarian: корпус (bg) m (korpus), кожух (bg) m (kožuh)
• Hungarian: burkolat (hu), ház (hu), hüvely (hu), tok (hu)
• Irish: cásáil f
• Italian: alloggiamento (it) m, contenitore (it) m, scatola (it) f
• Japanese: ハウジング (ja) (haujingu), 筐体 (ja) (kyōtai)
• Russian: ко́жух (ru) m (kóžux), футля́р (ru) m (futljár), чехо́л (ru) m (čexól), ко́рпус (ru) m (kórpus)
• Swedish: hus (sv) n, kåpa (sv) c, skal (sv) n, huv (sv) c

cover or cloth for a horse’s saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings

• Hungarian: nyeregtakaró (hu)

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Translations to be checked

• Macedonian: здомување n (zdomuvanje) (1), куќиште n (kuḱište) (3)
• Portuguese: alojamento (pt) m

See also

• house

French

Noun

housing m (plural housings)

1. (computing) colocation; A service allowing multiple customers to locate network, server, and storage gear, connect them to a variety of telecommunications and network service providers, with a minimum of cost and complexity