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    [Noun]  | "hut*ment" | \ ˈhət-mənt \


    1: a collection of huts : encampment

    2: hut

    Origin: 1889 ;

    [Noun]  | "hutment" 


    1: a place where a group of people live for a short time in tents or cabins;


      * e.g., " ... the arriving national guardsmen were forced to live in a hutment until permanent barracks could be constructed "



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    2: a small, simply constructed, and often temporary dwelling;


      * e.g., " ... a group of shabby hutments that had been erected to shelter the refugees "



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     [ "hutment" ]

    1: a type of shantytown whose buildings are made with mud brick, mortar, or found materials. Prior to the 1950's, a "hutment" could mean any sort of temporary barracks.

      * e.g.,  ... These hutment colonies consist of hovels made of a variety of hard and soft materials like pieces of wood, rags, tin sheets, mud, bricks and any such thing that comes in handy. Pushpa Agnihotri, *Poverty amidst prosperity: survey of slums* (1994), p.44 

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