housing

About 35.46 uses per million words.

Meaning

noun The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.
Housing of homeless families is a priority.
noun Residences, collectively.
She lives in low-income housing.
noun A mechanical component's container or covering.
The gears were grinding against their housing.
noun A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.
noun An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness.
noun 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.
noun A niche for a statue.
noun That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.