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hutment
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of HUTMENT
1
a place where a group of people live for a short time in tents or cabins <the arriving national guardsmen were forced to live in a hutment until permanent barracks could be constructed>
Related Words canvas (also canvass), tentage; colony, plantation, settlement; Hooverville, jungle, shantytown; concentration camp, prison camp; barracks, cantonment, installation, laager [South African], leaguer, post
2
a small, simply constructed, and often temporary dwelling <a group of shabby hutments that had been erected to shelter the refugees>
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