Accommodation

Etymology
From accommodatio:, from accommodo:. Compare French accommodation:.

Noun

 * 1)  Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.
 * 2) 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. - Sir Matthew Hale
 * 1) Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
 * 2) 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
 * 3) An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement.
 * To come to terms of accommodation. - Thomas Babington Macaulay
 * 1) 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. - William Paley
 * 1)  A loan of money
 * 2)  An accommodation bill or note.
 * 3)  an offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted
 * 4)  The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.

Derived terms

 * The definitions should be entered into dedicated entries for the terms defined.


 * accommodation bill, or note, (Commerce): 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 train: one running at moderate speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations
 * accommodation ladder, (Nautical): a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats
 * holiday accommodation

Thesaurus
Wall Street loan; abatement of differences; about-face; acclimation; acclimatization; accommodations; accord; accordance; accustoming; acquiescence; adaptation; adaption; adjustment; advance; advantage; agreement; alignment; alteration; amelioration; amenity; apostasy; appliance; appurtenance; arrangement; assimilation; attunement; award; awarding; bargain; bearings; bed; bed and board; bestowal; bestowment; betterment; board; board and room; break; breaking; breaking-in; burden; call loan; call money; capacity; case hardening; change; change of heart; changeableness; closing; coaptation; collateral loan; communication; compliance; composition; composition of differences; compromise; concession; conclusion; conditioning; conferment; conferral; conformance; conformation; conformation other-direction; conformity; congruity; consistency; constructive change; content; continuity; contribution; convenience; conventionality; conversion; coordination; cop-out; cordage; correspondence; deal; defection; degeneration; degenerative change; deliverance; delivery; demand loan; desertion of principle; deterioration; deviation; difference; digs; discontinuity; disorientation; divergence; diversification; diversion; diversity; domestication; donation; endowment; equalization; equalizing; equating; equation; equilibration; evasion of responsibility; evening; evening up; external loan; facilities; facility; familiarization; favor; financial assistance; fitting; flexibility; flip-flop; foreign loan; furnishment; gifting; give-and-take; giving; giving way; gradual change; grant; grant-in-aid; granting; habituation; hardening; harmonization; harmony; housebreaking; housing; impartation; impartment; improvement; integration; inurement; investiture; keep; keeping; lend; liberality; limit; line; loan; lodgings; long-term loan; malleability; measure; melioration; mitigation; modification; modulation; mutual concession; naturalization; obedience; observance; offer; orientation; orthodoxy; overthrow; pliancy; policy loan; poundage; premises; presentation; presentment; provision; qualification; quantity; quarters; radical change; re-creation; realignment; reconcilement; reconciliation; redesign; reform; reformation; regulation; remaking; renewal; reshaping; resolution; restructuring; reversal; revival; revivification; revolution; room; rooms; sealing; seasoning; secured loan; settlement; shelter; shift; short-term loan; signature; signing; solemnization; space; squaring; stowage; strictness; subscription; subsistence; sudden change; supplying; surrender; switch; synchronization; taming; terms; time loan; timing; tonnage; total change; traditionalism; training; transition; treaty; turn; turnabout; understanding; uniformity; unsecured loan; upheaval; variation; variety; violent change; volume; vouchsafement; worsening; yielding

Translations

 * Arabic: الإقامة
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 住處, 住处, 膳宿
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: majoitus
 * French:
 * German:


 * Hebrew: לינה, מגורים
 * Ido:
 * Japanese: 宿泊
 * Macedonian: сместување
 * Polish:
 * Russian:, расквартирование,
 * Spanish:, hospedaje


 * Bulgarian: приспособяване
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 調節, 调节,
 * Finnish: soveltuminen
 * French:
 * German:


 * Indonesian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: прилагодување
 * Polish:
 * Russian: согласование


 * Bulgarian: приспособяване, привикване
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: sopeutuminen


 * Japanese: 調節,
 * Macedonian: привикнување
 * Polish:
 * Russian: аккомодация

Noun

 * 1) accommodation