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Definition of Accommodation

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. Related Definitions: Accommodate, Accommodation, Act, Adaptation, Adapted, Adapting, Adjustment, Agreement, An, Analogy, And, Anything, Application, As, At, Being, By, Bill, Convenience, Desired, Ease, Fitted, Fitting, Followed, Food, Furnished, Ground, In, Inn, Intended, Is, Language, Loan, Money, Needful, Not, Note, Of, Often, On, Or, Originally, Plural, Reconciliation, Referred, Refreshment, Settlement, Something, State, Supplies, That, The, To, Want, Whatever, Which, Willingness, Writer

Accommodation Quotations 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 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 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 Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations. Jean Piaget Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours. Mary Douglas

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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