Definition of accommodation

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accommodation

noun

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 to its functions. -Sir M. Hale

Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
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 - Sir W. Scott
An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement.

To come to terms of . - Macaulay

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. - Paley

(context, Commerce) A loan of money
(context, Commerce) An accommodation bill or note.
an offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted

Translations:

French: accommodation
1. French, accommodation
2. German: Anpassung
3. Italian: sistemazione, alloggio

Etymology: From accommodatio, from accommodare (compare French French, accommodation)

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