The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to. Sir M. Hale. [1913 Webster]
Willingness to accommodate; obligingness. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement. Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended. [1913 Webster]
"Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations." [1913 Webster]
A loan of money. [1913 Webster]

Accommodation bill, or note (Com.), 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 (Naut.), a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

Accommodation, n.
1 (in sing. or US in pl.) lodgings; a place to live.
2 an adjustment or adaptation to suit a special or different purpose.
3 a convenient arrangement; a settlement or compromise.
4 (in pl.) US a seat in a vehicle etc.

Idiom

accommodation address an address used on letters to a person who is unable or unwilling to give a permanent address. accommodation bill a bill to raise money on credit. accommodation ladder a ladder up the side of a ship from a small boat. accommodation road a road for access to a place not on a public road.

Etymology

F accommodation or L accommodatio -onis (as ACCOMMODATE)

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THESAURUS

Accommodation

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

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ROGET THESAURUS

Accommodation

Agreement

N agreement, accord, accordance, unison, harmony, concord, concordance, concert, understanding, mutual understanding, conformity, conformance, uniformity, consonance, consentaneousness, consistency, congruity, congruence, keeping, congeniality, correspondence, parallelism, apposition, union, fitness, aptness, relevancy, pertinence, pertinencey, sortance, case in point, aptitude, coaptation, propriety, applicability, admissibility, commensurability, compatibility, cognation, adaption, adjustment, graduation, accommodation, reconciliation, reconcilement, assimilation, consent, concurrence, cooperation, right man in the right place, very thing, quite the thing, just the thing, agreeing, suiting, in accord, accordant, concordant, consonant, congruous, consentaneous, correspondent, congenial, coherent, becoming, harmonious reconcilable, conformable, in accordance with, in harmony with, in keeping with, in unison with at one with, of one mind, of a piece, consistent, compatible, proportionate, commensurate, on all fours, apt, apposite, pertinent, pat, to the point, to the purpose, happy, felicitous, germane, ad rem, in point, on point, directly on point, bearing upon, applicable, relevant, admissible, fit adapted, in loco, a propos, appropriate, seasonable, sortable, suitable, idoneous, deft, meet, at home, in one's proper element, a propos of, pertinently, rem acu tetigisti, if the shoe fits, wear it, the cap fits, auxilia humilia firma consensus facit, discers concordia.

Aid

N aid, aidance, assistance, help, opitulation, succor, support, lift, advance, furtherance, promotion, coadjuvancy, patronage, championship, countenance, favor, interest, advocacy, sustentation, subvention, alimentation, nutrition, nourishment, eutrophy, manna in the wilderness, food, means, ministry, ministration, subministration, accommodation, relief, rescue, help at a dead lift, supernatural aid, deus ex machina, supplies, reinforcements, reenforcements, succors, contingents, recruits, support, adjunct, ally, aiding, auxiliary, adjuvant, helpful, coadjuvant, subservient, ministrant, ancillary, accessory, subsidiary, at one's beck, at one's beck and call, friendly, amicable, favorable, propitious, well-disposed, neighborly, obliging, with the aid, by the aid of, on behalf of, in behalf of, in aid of, in the service of, in the name of, in favor of, in furtherance of, on account of, for the sake of, on the part of, non obstante, Int, help!, save us!, to the rescue!, alterum alterius auxilio eget, God befriend us as our cause is just, at your service.

Pacification

N pacification, conciliation, reconciliation, reconcilement, shaking of hands, accommodation, arrangement, adjustment, terms, compromise, amnesty, deed of release, peace offering, olive branch, calumet of peace, preliminaries of peace, truce, armistice, suspension of arms, suspension of hostilities, stand-down, breathing time, convention, modus vivendi, flag of truce, white flag, parlementaire, cartel, hollow truce, pax in bello, drawn battle, conciliatory, composing, pacified, requiescat in pace.

Lending

N lending, loan, advance, accommodation, feneration, mortgage, second mortgage, home loan, investment, note, bond, commercial paper, mont de piete, pawnshop, my uncle's, lender, pawnbroker, money lender, usurer, loan shark, loaner (of item loaned), lending, lent, unborrowed &c (borrowed), in advance, on loan, on security.

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