Definition of "housing" in English

noun

1. (uncountable) The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.

2. (uncountable) Residences, collectively.

   • She lives in low-income housing.

3. (countable) A mechanical component's container or covering.

   • 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.

5. An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness.

6. (architecture) 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.

7. A niche for a statue.

8. (nautical) That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.

9. (nautical) A houseline.

verb

1. present participle and gerund of house

   • We are housing the company's servers in Florida.