hutment
Cluster of huts
A hutment is a collection of huts, especially temporary military housing.
The word appears mainly in official or historical contexts describing encampments of prefabricated or improvised shelters: The troops were billeted in a hutment outside the village.
Common in British and Indian English, rare in American usage.
Ramshackle dwelling
- shackCrudely built hut
- slumImpoverished urban district
- makeshiftTemporary, improvised substitute
- corrugatedFormed into parallel folds
squatter · favela · township · lean-to · improvised · ramshackle · overcrowded · unplanned
Soldiers' residential building
- garrisonStationed military force
- cantonmentPermanent military station
- bivouacTemporary military encampment
- encampmentTemporary military or refugee settlement
quarters · billeting · outpost · fortification · mess · troops · platoon · battalion
Removal from usual location
- resettlementReestablishing in new place
- reliefEasing of distress
- asylumShelter from persecution
- campTemporary outdoor shelter site
aid · humanitarian · shelter · protection · migration · crisis · emergency · UNHCR
Large-scale farming operation
- workersPeople doing jobs
- laborersWorkers doing physical tasks
- servantsHired household workers
- compoundCombined into one
estate · quarters · indentured · overseer · lodging · segregated · native · migrant
Conditional and possibly temporary
- impermanentNot meant to last
- transientTemporary, soon departing
- makeshiftTemporary, improvised substitute
- short-termOf limited duration
stopgap · portable · demountable · prefabricated · relocatable · ad-hoc · interim · emergency
shanty
Ramshackle dwelling
corrugated · squatter · favela · township · lean-to · improvised · ramshackle · overcrowded · unplanned · settlement
barracks
Soldiers' residential building
- garrisonStationed military force
- cantonmentPermanent military station
- bivouacTemporary military encampment
encampment · quarters · billeting · outpost · fortification · mess · troops · platoon · battalion · regiment
displacement
Removal from usual location
- resettlementReestablishing in new place
- reliefEasing of distress
- asylumShelter from persecution
camp · aid · humanitarian · shelter · protection · migration · crisis · emergency · UNHCR · repatriation
plantation
Large-scale farming operation
compound · estate · quarters · indentured · overseer · lodging · segregated · native · migrant · rudimentary
provisional
Conditional and possibly temporary
- impermanentNot meant to last
- transientTemporary, soon departing
- makeshiftTemporary, improvised substitute
short-term · stopgap · portable · demountable · prefabricated · relocatable · ad-hoc · interim · emergency · wartime