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hutment

[ huht-muhnt ]

noun

  1. an encampment of huts.


hutment

/ ˈhʌtmənt /

noun

  1. military a number or group of huts
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hutment1

First recorded in 1885–90; hut + -ment
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Example Sentences

In the northern state of Himachal Pradesh, flash floods over the weekend brought down a bridge and swept away several hutments.

From Reuters

Now the government seeks their homes, temporary bamboo hutments with tin roofs.

The team walked to the nearest hutment — with no toilet, no electricity, no cellphone signal — to bunk down for the evening.

Even married couples were not allowed to live together in the hutment camps.

On the other side of the river, the steep mud banks changed abruptly into low mud walls of shanty hutments.

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