hutments

plural of hutment
1
as in campgrounds
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

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2
as in huts
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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Noun
  • This includes the following recreation areas and campgrounds, House Rock Camp Site, 18 Mile Wash Camp Site, 18 Mile Ledges Camp Site, Upper North Canyon Camp Site and Lower North Canyon Camp Site.
    AZCentral.com, AZCentral.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The two-day sweep of campgrounds near Leavenworth, Washington, which involved more than 100 FBI Seattle agents alongside local law enforcement, concluded Tuesday and yielded the first major development in a nationwide hunt that has gripped the public since early summer, Fox 13 Seattle reported.
    Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The former looks like a Caribbean hideaway with huts which are built from bamboo and have thatched roofs.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Just down the beach from the restaurant, a row of waterfront fishing huts called Pueblo de los Pescadores had long been at the heart of local nightlife, offering DJs and sunset views, until a fire in 2021.
    The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The modern campground is closed for the remainder of the 2025 season for planned updates to the electrical and septic systems and to convert 44 campsites to full-hookup.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Even if all visitors properly dispose of bodily waste following Leave No Trace standards—in a cathole six to eight inches deep and at least 200 feet from trails, campsites, and bodies of water—in areas with extremely high visitation, excrement will eventually reach a critical mass.
    Owen Clarke, Outside, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The two competing camps both made hyperbolic claims that their technology would soon deliver computers that equalled or exceeded human intelligence.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • And with a payload capacity of 100 tons, Starship should be able to carry all the equipment for one of Interlune’s mining camps in one or two shipments.
    Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Gaza City residents said the military had destroyed homes and tent encampments that had housed Palestinians displaced by nearly two years of war.
    Nidal al-Mughrabi, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The White House added that five missing children had been found and 50 homeless encampments had been removed, with as many as 3,200 federal employees deployed across 22 agencies.
    Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Tens of thousands live in tin shacks, lacking basic amenities, such as coal for cooking and heating their homes.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Indiana Capital Chronicle Editor-in-Chief Niki Kelly shared on her X/Twitter account that Vance entered the Indiana statehouse through the basement, where media shacks are located, but did not respond to a question about why Indiana should redistrict.
    Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Leisure’s best new hotels of 2021, Wander the Resort offers 10 luxurious glass-and-timber cabins along the quiet northern shores of West Lake.
    Alexandra Emanuelli, Travel + Leisure, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Specifically, Wauhatchie Woodlands, a charming campground-of-sorts filled with tiny cabins.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2025
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“Hutments.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hutments. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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