lodgment Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun bringing a charge or accusation against someone
    lodgement.
  2. noun the state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily
    lodgement; lodging.
    • the lodgment of the balloon in the tree

WordNet

Lodg"ment noun
Etymology
Cf. F. logement. See Lodge, v.
Definitions
  1. The act of lodging, or the state of being lodged.
    Any particle which is of size enough to make a lodgment afterwards in the small arteries. Paley.
  2. A lodging place; a room. Obs.
  3. An accumulation or collection of something deposited in a place or remaining at rest.
  4. (Mil.) The occupation and holding of a position, as by a besieging party; an instrument thrown up in a captured position; as, to effect a lodgment.

Webster 1913