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• n  bringing a charge or accusation against someone
• n  the state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily
  the lodgment of the balloon in the tree

• For centuries Russian imperialism groped without success for the power lodgment in the Middle East that the Soviet Union hopefully sees itself about to win.
• The deal gives Curtis a solid lodgment in the prospering field of shelter magazines.
• The alarms were real: the West could indeed lose its oldest and most strategic lodgment point in the Arab Middle East, and defeat there would make precarious the fortunes of .

• lodgement
• lodging