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.
- About the accommodation -- _accommodation_ means money, does not it?
- Accommodation houses and stores were strung along the rest of the road.
- He tried to end the debate Friday with what he called an "accommodation."
- The word "accommodation" should be on everyone's mind in these situations.
- I also had a private arrangement with my partner for obtaining what I called accommodation bills.
- The term accommodation, while it has a limited field of application in biology, has a wide and varied use in sociology.
- The term accommodation, as has been noted, developed as a differentiation within the field of the biological concept of adaptation.
- You know, the Mobile Storage business in the U.K. was quite heavily skewed towards what they call accommodation units, what we call in the U.S. office units.
- But after enduring another week of bitter backlash over its mandate requiring religious employers, including Catholic hospitals and universities, to cover birth control, including the morning-after pill, in their health-care plans, the White House on Friday announced what it calls an "accommodation" that will require insurers to pay directly for women's contraception if an employer objects to doing so on religious grounds.