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accommodation
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"room and provisions, lodging," c.1600, now usually plural ( accommodations ) and chiefly U.S.; from French accommodation , from Latin accommodationem (nominative accommodatio ), noun of action from past participle stem of accommodare (see accommodate ). ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (senseid en lodging) (label en chiefly British usually a mass noun) lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc. 2 (label en physical) adaptation or adjustment. 3 # (label ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES hotel accommodation British English , hotel accommodations American English (= rooms in a hotel ) ▪ The price includes hotel accommodation. secure accommodation British English (= a type of prison ) ▪ In the last year, ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accommodation \Ac*com`mo*da"tion\, n. [L. accommodatio, fr. accommodare: cf. F. accommodation.] The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to. ``The organization of the body with accommodation ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Accommodation is a legal obligation entered into as a gratuitous favor without consideration , such as a signature guaranteeing payment of a debt . This is sometimes called an accommodation endorsement. Category:Contract law
Usage examples of accommodation.
Yet, in many of the plans and designs got up for his accommodation, in the books and publications of the day, all due convenience, to say nothing of the respectability or the elegance of domestic life, is as entirely disregarded as if such qualities had no connection with the farmer or his occupation.
It behooves, therefore, the American builder to examine well his premises, to ascertain the actual requirements of his farm or plantation, in convenience and accommodation, and build only to such extent, and at such cost as shall not impoverish his means, nor cause him future disquietude.
Altogether, these several apartments make a very complete and desirable accommodation to a man with the property and occupation for which it is intended.
The same sized house, with the same accommodation, may be made to cost fifty to one hundred per cent.
All such accommodation every farm house of this character should afford.
If farther attachments be required for the accommodation of out-building conveniences, they may be continued indefinitely in the rear.
It may, too, receive the same amount of outer decoration, in its shrubbery and plantations, given to any other style of building of like accommodation, and with an equally agreeable effect.
And as their due accommodation is to be the object of our present writing, a plan is presented for that object.
We shall, then, proceed at once to discuss their proper accommodation, in the cheapest and most familiar method with which we are acquainted.
With what experience we have had with the hog, and that by no means an agreeable one, we can devise no better method of accommodation than this here described, and it certainly is the cheapest.
If the dairy be of such extent as to require larger accommodation than the plan here suggested, a room or two may be partitioned off from the main milk and pressing-room, for washing the vessels and other articles employed, and for setting the milk.
Guard found their accommodation in a disused drying shed, where a fireplace provided a welcome warmth.
Unfortunately, no VIP accommodation remained available for the captain himself.
The town had an outer band of factories, similar to those that Mark had worked in back in Biewn, several condo-style accommodation blocks, and five sprawling housing estates.
As a vessel with no regular ports of call, with only very limited passenger accommodation and capacious cargo holds that were seldom far from full, the s.