See Also: accommodation(medicine)
accommodation(dictionary)
accommodation of eye(medicine)
accommodation(dictionary)
Accommodation(health)
relative accommodation(medicine)
spasm of accommodation(medicine)
Accommodation Paper(money)
Accommodation Party(money)
ACCOMMODATION, contracts(law)

accommodation (iou)



accommodation noun. E17.
[Old & mod. French, or Latin accommodatio(n-), formed as ACCOMMODATE verb: see -ATION.]
Something which supplies a want or ministers to one's comfort. E17.
J. Reynolds The regular progress of cultivated life is from necessaries to accommodations, from accommodations to ornaments.
sing. & (now US) in pl. Room and provision for the reception of people, lodgings; living premises. E17.
A. Powell The accommodation was a bit..squalid.
An arrangement of a dispute; a settlement; a compromise. M17.
H. Wilson Trying to reach an accommodation with the Liberal leader.
The action of accommodating or the process of being accommodated; adaptation, adjustment. M17.
D. Brewster The accommodation of the eye to the distinct vision of external objects.
Adaptation to a different purpose, function, or meaning. E18.
Self-adaptation; obligingness; a favour. M18.
W. Faulkner Wherever you could take us, it would be a big accommodation.
The action of supplying with what is requisite. rare. M18.
Pecuniary aid in an emergency; a loan. L18.
D. Runyon I do not care to extend such accommodations over any considerable period.
Comb.: accommodation address: used on letters to a person unable or unwilling to give a permanent address; accommodation bill: for raising money on credit; accommodation ladder: allowing access between a ship's decks, or to and from a small boat etc. alongside; accommodation paddock Austral. & NZ: for drovers to keep stock in overnight; accommodation road: giving access to a place not on a public road.
accommodational adjective (a) affording (good) accommodation; (b) of or pertaining to accommodation: E19.