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語源

From Middle French logement, from loger (“to lodge”) + -ment.

発音

• (米国発音) enPR: lŏjmənt, IPA^(key): /ˈlɑd͡ʒmənt/

名詞

lodgment (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 lodgments)

1. An area used for lodging; a place in which a person or thing is or can be lodged.
   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     Rawdon was denied the door by Mr. Bowls; his servants could not get a lodgment in the house at Park Lane; his letters were sent back unopened.

   • 1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “chapter 16”, in The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:

     The door opened, and Marvel made a frantic effort to obtain a lodgment behind it.

   • 1914, James Stephens, chapter III, in The Demi-Gods‎^[1], New York: Macmillan, published 1921, page 17:

     If the surprisor and the surprisee are mutually astonished, then, indeed, there is a tangle out of which anything may emerge, for two explanations are necessary at the one moment, and two explanations can no more hold the same position in time than two bodies can occupy the same lodgment in space.

   • 1922, Edmund J. Sullivan, chapter II, in Line: An Art Study‎^[2], London: Chapman & Hall, page 18:

     In the case of a wood-engraving the reverse takes place. It is not those parts removed by the burin that afford lodgment for the printer's ink, but the surface left standing and untouched by it.

   • 1958 April 7, “Posing the Right Question”, in Time:

     The alarms were real: the West could indeed lose its oldest and most strategic lodgment point in the Arab Middle East […]

   • See also quotations under lodgement.
2. The condition of being lodged.
   • 2000, Nick Mansfield, chapter 2, in Subjectivity: Theories of the Self from Freud to Haraway‎^[3], New York: University Press, page 25:

     Nineteenth-century culture bears witness to a gradually intensifying anxiety about the structure of the self and the security of its lodgment in the world.

3. The act of lodging or depositing.
   • 1893 August 11, “Archived copy”, in Hansard‎^[4], archived from the original on 12 February 2019:

     Full provision is made by these Acts for the efficient inspection of tea gardens and for the lodgment of complaints by coolies in districts where they are in operation.

   • 1917 April 21, George Draper, “Acute Poliomyelitis: Early Diagnosis and Serum Therapy”, in The Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 68, number 16, Chicago, Ill., →DOI, page 1155:

     A suggestive analogy becomes apparent between the first febrile period of the dromedary or straggling types, and the phenomena of lodgment of the virus in the spleen and bone marrow of monkeys after intravenous inoculation.

   • 2013, Pat J. Barrett, Summary Judgment in Ireland: Principles and Defences, Bloomsbury Professional, section 1.101, [5]

     The court may also decide to grant leave to defend, or to grant a stay on an order for judgment, conditional upon a cash lodgment being made by the defendant.

4. (military, historical) The occupation of a position by a besieging party, and the works thrown up to maintain it.