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Accommodation   /əkˌɑmədˈeɪʃən/   Listen
noun
Accommodation  n.  
1.
The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; followed by to. "The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions."
2.
Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
3.
Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; often in the plural; as, the accommodations that is, lodgings and food at an inn.
4.
An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement. "To come to terms of accommodation."
5.
The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended. "Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations."
6.
(Com.)
(a)
A loan of money.
(b)
An accommodation bill or note.
Accommodation bill, or Accommodation note (Com.), a bill of exchange which a person accepts, or a note which a person makes and delivers to another, not upon a consideration received, but for the purpose of raising money on credit.
Accommodation coach, or Accommodation train, one running at moderate speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations.
Accommodation ladder (Naut.), a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats.






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"Accommodation" Quotes from Famous Books



... fully deserved its name. Both before and after the commencement of the siege, the magistrates had enough to do in devising necessary plans, even had not their time been fully occupied in carrying their plans into execution. Among other duties, they had to arrange for the accommodation of the wounded, the burial of the dead, and the bodily needs both of those who were defending the city and their families; while not neglecting, on the other hand, to guard against a wasteful use of the provisions, to preserve the strictest ...
— The Young Carpenters of Freiberg - A Tale of the Thirty Years' War • Anonymous

... near it where we could get lodgings. By this time it was quite dark, and we passed Loch Tulla without either seeing it or knowing it was there, and arriving at the Bridge of Orchy we found the drover's house near the church. To our great disappointment the accommodation had all been taken up, and the only place that the lady of the house knew of in the direction we were going was a farmhouse about four miles away, where she said, with a tone of doubt in her voice, "we might get in!" We crossed the bridge and passed over ...
— From John O'Groats to Land's End • Robert Naylor and John Naylor

... Adjutant, and had been away on business, therefore had only just heard that I was in the laager, and he had come at once to see if he could be of any service. I took the opportunity of telling him what I thought of the way in which they were treating me, pointing out the wretched accommodation I had, and the fact that they had not even supplied me with a bed. He was very sympathetic, and expressed much sorrow at my discomforts, promising to speak to the General immediately, though without holding out much hope of success, as ...
— South African Memories - Social, Warlike & Sporting From Diaries Written At The Time • Lady Sarah Wilson

... riding they reached the spring, and then the Stag ordered a small tent of skins to be erected for Ethel's accommodation. ...
— Out on the Pampas - The Young Settlers • G. A. Henty

... there had arrived, an hour before sailing, an American gentleman—a certain Mr. Horace Fletcher, who, having been called home suddenly, had had to take what accommodation he could get on the first available boat. Two days later he had lain unconscious, strapped to the captain's table, whilst the ship's doctor, a young man, himself in the horrible throes of seasickness, had performed a radical operation for acute mastoiditis. There ...
— The Dark House • I. A. R. Wylie


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