Definition of Accommodation

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Accommodation

The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to.

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.

An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement.

The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.

A loan of money.

An accommodation bill or note.

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Accommodation Quotations

Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
Jean Piaget

I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.
Edvard Munch

Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie.
Wim Wenders

Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours.
Mary Douglas

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.
Ruth Benedict

My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.
Jalal Talabani

I wish I had it in my power to furnish you with accommodation I should feel proud to do it, shall be happy to hear from you at anytime when you engagements will allow you an hour and remain with best wishes for yourself, family and circuit.
John Hawley

I think that's the phenomenon of our time is that a lot of women keep themselves in good shape but that there's not a lot of accommodation or people out there to connect with and the technology.
Stockard Channing

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.
Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

Accommodation Translations

accommodation in Afrikaans is afspraak, woning
accommodation in Danish is lejlighed, samtykke, indbo
accommodation in Dutch is aanpassing
accommodation in French is disposition, construction, arrangement, compromis
accommodation in German is Quartier, Unterkunft, Versorgung, Unterbringung
accommodation in Italian is aggiustamento, rifornimento, alloggiamento
accommodation in Norwegian is avtale

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