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quarters

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quarters

  1. plural of quarter.

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quarters

  1. (plural only, originally military) Housing, barracks, or other habitation or living space. Compare cuarto.
    • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 1, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎[1]:
      “I have visited my quarters, and find them very comfortable. […] Steerage is like everything else maritime […] vastly improved since Robert Louis Stevenson took his trip third class to New York.”
    • 2022 September 19, HarryBlank, “Beyond Repair”, in SCP Foundation‎[2], archived from the original on 15 September 2024:
      "Yeah." It was him, alright; if the world's weariest pair of workboots hadn't tipped her off, his world-weary voice certainly would have. "Where were you?"
      "My quarters. We've got a full ticket set today, and techs work best without oversight." Neither of these things was untrue, though the curation was more than a little dishonest.
      "Maybe yours do." Nascimbeni rolled out, back flat against a neon orange creeper, and sat up with an audible wince. "Mine fuck the dog."
  2. (by extension) The place where someone or something lives.
    • 2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)[3]
      The local pet trade thrives on captured or orphaned baby macaques—often malnourished and kept in tight quarters.
  3. A commonly played university drinking game in North America.
  4. Quarterfinals.

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quarters

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of quarter

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quarters

  1. plural of quarter

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quarters m

  1. plural of quarter

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quarters

  1. plural of quarter
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