The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word BILLET
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More clues leading to the result BILLET
- Accommodation choice that's kept badly
- Gamble: I will within, in quarters
- Lodging suit finally after libel spread
- Rent regularly appended to account for lodgings
- Put up film poster at the top
- Retiring politician allowed to get job
- Told to send account for accommodation
- Flutter around unfriendly accommodation for the military
- Wager involving trouble in lodge
- Quarter note
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What does BILLET mean?
BILLET noun- A short informal letter.
- A written order to quarter soldiers.
- A place where a soldier is assigned to lodge.
- An allocated space or berth in a boat or ship.
- Berth; position.
- (of a householder etc.) To lodge soldiers, or guests, usually by order.
- (of a soldier) To lodge, or be quartered, in a private house.
- To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge.
- A semi-finished length of metal.
- A short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood.
- A short cutting of sugar cane produced by a harvester or used for planting.
- A rectangle used as a charge on an escutcheon.
- An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood, either square or round.
- (saddlery) A strap that enters a buckle.
- A loop that receives the end of a buckled strap.
- An English fish, allied to the cod; the coalfish.