housed

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of house.

   The old factory housed several small workshops for decades.

   Refugees were housed in temporary camps near the border.

   Note

   A regular verb, so one spelling covers both the simple past (the factory housed workshops) and the participle after have or be (they have housed families; they were housed in camps). Most uses are transitive. People are housed in shelters, gears are housed in a casing, and astrologers speak of a planet housed in one of the twelve houses. When the participle names a settled state rather than an action, it becomes the adjective, as in newly housed tenants.

2. 2
   adjective

   Enclosed within, provided with, or covered by a house or other protective structure.

   The newly housed tenants finally had heat and running water.

   Livestock kept housed through winter fared far better than those left in the open.

   Similarsheltered, enclosed

   Oppositehomeless, unhoused

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