Dictionary

lodgment en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• lŏjmənt (US)
• /ˈlɑd͡ʒmənt/ (US)

Etymology

From Middle French logement, from loger (“to lodge”) + -ment.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) An area used for lodging; a place in which a person or thing is or can be lodged.
   • In the case of a wood-engraving the reverse takes place. It is not those parts removed by the burin that afford lodgment for the printer's ink, but the surface left standing and untouched by it. 1922, Edmund J. Sullivan, chapter II, in Line: An Art Study, London: Chapman & Hall, page 18:
   • If the surprisor and the surprisee are mutually astonished, then, indeed, there is a tangle out of which anything may emerge, for two explanations are necessary at the one moment, and two explanations can no more hold the same position in time than two bodies can occupy the same lodgment in space. 1914, James Stephens, chapter III, in The Demi-Gods, New York: Macmillan, published 1921, page 17:
   • The door opened, and Marvel made a frantic effort to obtain a lodgment behind it. 1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “chapter 16”, in The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
   • See also quotations under lodgement.
   • Rawdon was denied the door by Mr. Bowls; his servants could not get a lodgment in the house at Park Lane; his letters were sent back unopened. 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
   • The alarms were real: the West could indeed lose its oldest and most strategic lodgment point in the Arab Middle East […] 1958 April 7, “Posing the Right Question”, in Time:
2. (countable, uncountable) The condition of being lodged.
   • Nineteenth-century culture bears witness to a gradually intensifying anxiety about the structure of the self and the security of its lodgment in the world. 2000, Nick Mansfield, chapter 2, in Subjectivity: Theories of the Self from Freud to Haraway, New York: University Press, page 25:
3. (countable, uncountable) The act of lodging or depositing.
   • Full provision is made by these Acts for the efficient inspection of tea gardens and for the lodgment of complaints by coolies in districts where they are in operation. 1893 August 11, Hansard, archived from the original on 12 Feb 2019:
   • A suggestive analogy becomes apparent between the first febrile period of the dromedary or straggling types, and the phenomena of lodgment of the virus in the spleen and bone marrow of monkeys after intravenous inoculation. 1917 April 21, George Draper, “Acute Poliomyelitis: Early Diagnosis and Serum Therapy”, in The Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 68, number 16, Chicago, Ill., →DOI, page 1155:
   • 2013, Pat J. Barrett, Summary Judgment in Ireland: Principles and Defences, Bloomsbury Professional, section 1.101, https://books.google.ca/books?id=M-yVAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false The court may also decide to grant leave to defend, or to grant a stay on an order for judgment, conditional upon a cash lodgment being made by the defendant.
4. (countable, historical, uncountable) The occupation of a position by a besieging party, and the works thrown up to maintain it.

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