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Definition of Lodgement
1. Noun. Bringing a charge or accusation against someone.
2. Noun. The state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily. "The lodgment of the balloon in the tree"
Generic synonyms: Fastness, Fixedness, Fixity, Fixture, Secureness
Derivative terms: Lodge, Lodge
Definition of Lodgement
1. n. See Lodgment.
Definition of Lodgement
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of lodgment) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lodgement
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lodgement
Literary usage of Lodgement
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Aide-mémoire to the Military Sciences: Framed from Contributions of Officers by Great Britain Army. Royal Engineers (1853)
"Shewing the lodgement on the Crest of the Glacis. As the Sapping advances—for
the construction of the Battery may be considered to be by Sap, ..."
2. The Practice of Surgery by James Miller (1853)
"lodgement of Foreign Bodies. When foreign bodies penetrate the brain, ... If,
however, the site of lodgement is unknown, or if the foreign body, ..."
3. The Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, E W Brayley (1816)
"... when the air is still, and the phenomena of its combustion, when set on fire
in such a state. I. On the lodgement of the Inflammable Gas in Coal-Mines. ..."
4. Annals of Philosophy, Or, Magazine of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Mechanics by Thomas Thomson (1816)
"ARTICLE V. Issay on the lodgement of Carbureted Hydrogen Gas in Coal Mine*, and
on the "Cause of ihn Explosions or Blasts peculiar la these Mines. ..."
5. Money and Its Laws: Embracing a History of Monetary Theories, and a History by Henry Varnum Poor (1877)
"It never seems to make a final and permanent lodgement of any of its truths in
the public mind. They float on a tide which often carries the vessel backward ..."
6. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1898)
"... THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE IMPORTANCE OF A LESION IN ANIMAL TISSUE FOR THE lodgement
AND MULTIPLICATION OF BACTERIA WITHIN IT. (From the Bacterial Laboratory. ..."