housing

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

Plural housings