accommodation
IPA: ʌkɑmʌdˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- (chiefly Britain, usually a mass noun) Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.
- (physical) Adaptation or adjustment.
- (countable, uncountable, followed by to) The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.
- (countable, uncountable) A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.
- (countable, physiology, biology) The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.
- (countable, medicine) The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.
- (personal) Adaptation or adjustment.
- (countable, uncountable) Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
- (countable, uncountable) Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.
- (countable) The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
- (countable, commerce) A loan of money.
- (countable, commerce) An accommodation bill or note.
- (countable, law) An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.
- (theology) An adaptation or method of interpretation which explains the special form in which the revelation is presented as unessential to its contents, or rather as often adopted by way of compromise with human ignorance or weakness.
- (countable, geology) The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.
- (linguistics, sociolinguistics) Modification(s) to make one's way of communicating similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse.
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Examples of "accommodation" in Sentences
- The accommodation hut is on the left.
- The mews is now used for accommodation.
- The accommodation and transient part is mine.
- Accommodation is the state of focus of the eye.
- The granary was converted to residential accommodation.
- But they were replaced by more convivial accommodation.
- A treetop house provides accommodation for the adventurous.
- The accommodation is compact and cozy comprising of 50 rooms.
- Accommodation houses and stores were strung along the rest of the road.
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