noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hotel accommodationBritish English, hotel accommodations American English (= rooms in a hotel)
▪ The price includes hotel accommodation.
secure accommodationBritish English (= a type of prison)
▪ In the last year, only three children under the age of 14 have had to be placed in secure accommodation.
self-catering accommodation/apartment/cottage etc
temporary accommodation
▪ temporary accommodation
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
alternative
▪ It then gave her notice to quit the temporary accommodation, and offered her alternative accommodation elsewhere which she refused.
▪ If your accommodation has to be changed we will do our best to provide alternative accommodation of similar or higher official classification.
▪ Of the 59 people who were living there, 29 have had to go into alternative accommodation.
▪ Assistance may take the form of an offer of alternative accommodation or a cash payment.
▪ Reasonable alternative accommodation, if this is necessary.
▪ Most firms have found alternative accommodation already.
▪ If life at home becomes impossible, well-run alternative accommodation where individual privacy and dignity are respected is preferred.
▪ It was a Militant councillor who found her alternative accommodation where she was later to give birth to her daughter, Claire.
comfortable
▪ It's a smaller establishment with comfortable accommodation.
▪ The management prides itself on offering comfortable accommodation in elegant surroundings, and puts an emphasis on providing excellent service.
▪ Surely no-one in Castlereagh would begrudge a modest investment in proper safe, clean and comfortable working accommodation for their public servants?
▪ These provide a very clean and comfortable accommodation with private facilities.
▪ These pleasing establishments offer comfortable accommodation with friendly service.
▪ For comfortable, affordable accommodation around south Belfast is almost impossible to find.
▪ Essentially it is a traditional wood-faced village inn, offering comfortable accommodation, excellent cuisine and good value.
▪ The area is best explored from Nidri, a busy new village with three convenient beaches and comfortable accommodation.
free
▪ As things stand, ministers who oversee large state industries enjoy free accommodation at five-star hotels and foreign travel.
▪ They were offering free accommodation and food to some one who would do what they described as a little gentle housework.
▪ The Birmingham Convention &038; Visitor Bureau offers a free accommodation booking service for visitors to the city.
▪ In return for free accommodation and a lot of my attention, they helped me get up and go to bed.
▪ Benefits include free furnished accommodation, 30 working days annual leave, family airfares, medical care and children's educational assistance.
▪ Guests who stay on over the Friday and Saturday nights and also have dinner in the hotel will receive free accommodation.
▪ The church pay my salary and have provided free accommodation, a cottage adjacent to the church.
good
▪ It offers good size accommodation, benefiting from three good bedrooms, two separate reception rooms and partial gas fired central heating.
▪ Accommodation Eleven years as the principal tour operators in Nidri enable us to choose the best accommodation in town.
▪ Found very good accommodation - good dinner and several beers consumed.
▪ Nidri A fabulous location with good accommodation and swimming pool.
▪ Better still, would be to think again about the best sort of accommodation for these sensitive areas.
▪ They would be provided in good quality accommodation.
▪ Beautifully decorated inside and out, the Maria offers a good standard of accommodation and traditional family hospitality at a reasonable price.
▪ This particular property offers good sized accommodation with a multitude of possibilities.
living
▪ The only possible scope for early development is in association with its agricultural use, for example living accommodation for farm workers or owner-occupiers.
▪ The Census includes questions about living accommodation.
▪ Each apartment has basic, simple furnishings and a two-ring stove, living accommodation, shower room, and patio or terrace.
▪ They insisted upon coming out to Reine to inspect my living accommodation, and the person with whom I shared it.
▪ I hoped the simplicity of our living accommodation was not going to be a horrible disappointment to him.
▪ It is an ideal centre, with a synthetic track and weight-training facilities very close to the living accommodation.
▪ These will be sold or leased to trainers with living accommodation.
▪ The fortifications were slowly curtailed, and the living accommodation became more spacious and comfortable.
new
▪ The issues are revenue grant aid and the acquisition of new office accommodation.
▪ On new office accommodation the Council will explain the latest position regarding the new building at South Gyle.
▪ The new accommodation is on one floor, set round a pretty courtyard which echoes the traditional details of the existing structure.
▪ Much of my spare time then went into trying to find new accommodation.
▪ The calculation will, of course, vary, depending upon the plaintiff's circumstances and the nature of the new accommodation.
▪ He moved in to the new, roomier accommodation.
▪ Many of these houses represented virtually the only new private-sector accommodation available in the inner cities.
▪ Teaching takes place in new purpose-built accommodation including a suite of laboratories equipped with the latest hardware and software.
other
▪ I have continued to live there as my sole residence and do not have any other home or accommodation.
▪ Should they digress they would be asked to find other accommodation forthwith.
▪ But, once they had seen the flat in the exclusive block where Rosemary lived, no other accommodation bore comparison.
▪ They plan to release the residents of Gorse Hill into the community or into other council owned accommodation.
▪ Nevertheless I set off northwards, feeling sure that there would be other accommodation along the way.
▪ This will give you and your family time to look for other accommodation in the area.
▪ Mr Major, who normally sleeps in a top-floor flat above his office, will be found other accommodation in Whitehall.
overnight
▪ Included in the cost is all overnight accommodation.
▪ For $ 239, you and your Valentine are treated to the same fabulous dinner, and overnight accommodations.
▪ Except where * indicates that overnight accommodation for 3 nights in Budapest is on a bed and breakfast basis.
▪ Day 8 Agra-Khajuraho A morning flight will take you to Khajuraho with overnight accommodation at the Taj.
▪ Several can offer overnight accommodation to pilots socked-inn by weather.
▪ Many of these huts provide overnight accommodation if you feel like being a bit adventurous.
▪ Ultimately, it is expected to provide overnight accommodation for up to 30 volunteers.
▪ The cost of your ticket, plus overnight accommodation and full Yorkshire breakfast, will be £28.50.
public
▪ Under my construction, the Act would apply to all customers in all the enumerated places of public accommodation.
▪ Mostly at issue was the integration of schools or public accommodations.
▪ Congress may forbid discrimination in public accommodations that are related to interstate commerce. 28.
▪ Its state legislators refused to adopt public accommodations laws for their counties.
reasonable
▪ Despite this, the hiring of a personal assistant might be a reasonable accommodation in some circumstances.
▪ Kennedy, for his part, seemed open to the reasonable accommodation.
▪ We were pleased to work out a reasonable accommodation with Senator Sher to provide some relief to tenants.
▪ Both companies have policies about benefits, disability, reasonable accommodation, discrimination and employee assistance.
rented
▪ The group will also recommend improved access to private rented accommodation through rent deposit schemes.
▪ An overwhelming proportion of private rented accommodation is to be found in the major cities, notably London and Liverpool.
▪ This would apply to rented accommodation, council houses, etc.
▪ Many potential homeowners decided to sit out the recession in rented accommodation, leaving their money in high-earning accounts.
▪ In fact, only about half of young higher education students live in privately rented accommodation.
▪ Ed, who lives in rented accommodation, plans to use the money as a down-payment on a house.
▪ We will extend the security of tenure in private rented accommodation to a similar level to that enjoyed by council tenants.
▪ Unfurnished rented accommodation is no cheaper than furnished accommodation in London.
residential
▪ Readers who book residential accommodation will be entitled to £20 discount per person, per night.
▪ There is even a school of thought that says some 1960s office blocks outside prime areas should be refurbished as residential accommodation.
▪ Middlesbrough woman Gwen Lamb was shocked to discover that anyone can offer residential accommodation to the most vulnerable in society.
▪ For example, there is nothing about people in residential accommodation but several pages on the benefit position of 16- and 17-year-olds.
▪ Inevitably with the rapid expansion of the past few years the University is experiencing difficulties in providing sufficient academic as well as residential accommodation.
▪ An occupier of residential accommodation at a rent for a term is either a lodger or a tenant.
▪ When welfare departments were created in 1948, their major concern as regards old people was with residential accommodation.
▪ Relatively few are in hospitals or residential accommodation.
secure
▪ At present, too many young offenders are being remanded in prisons because local authorities lack enough secure accommodation for them.
▪ They are the result of a conference held last year for young women in secure accommodation.
▪ The boy, who had only been in care for a short while before the incident, is now in secure accommodation.
▪ And in the last two years only three children under 14 have had to be placed in secure accommodation.
▪ There will be an interim secure accommodation order for three weeks from today.
▪ It is clear that the planning meeting was for the purpose of deciding how the period in secure accommodation should be managed.
▪ However, I wish to address one potentially significant impact of the Act in relation to secure accommodation applications in civil proceedings.
▪ On 7 December 1990 a secure accommodation order was made by the justices under section 21A of the Child Care Act 1980.
sheltered
▪ Twenty one pensioners had to be rescued by boat from their sheltered accommodation.
▪ Well, I live in sheltered accommodation and, believe me, I have to pay the full licence fee.
▪ Shortly after buying it, Denega was refused listed building consent to demolish the chapel and develop 21 sheltered accommodation units.
▪ Some older people are keen to live in sheltered accommodation where they hope for a combination of independence and security.
▪ Housing associations as well as local authorities are involved in the provision of sheltered accommodation.
▪ With it went planning consent for the sheltered accommodation units.
▪ I hope it doesn't drag on! 29. Sheltered accommodation here is a little different.
▪ A recent development in the property market has been the creation of sheltered accommodation for the elderly - both rented and private.
sleeping
▪ Not for them the £120,000 customised horse-boxes around them with built-in kitchens, television and sleeping accommodation.
▪ Minshuku are the best bet for the budget travellers with ryokan-style floor sleeping accommodation.
▪ Dawn is not ideal even now as it has very limited sleeping accommodation.
suitable
▪ Prices do not apply to Public Holiday periods unless otherwise stated, and are subject to availability of suitable accommodation.
▪ This judgment has to be made before the executive act of securing the suitable accommodation for the applicant can be performed.
▪ Careful thought must be given to the requirements of the plants and livestock and suitable accommodation provided.
▪ Jack was offered voluntary redundancy in late August and it was confirmed that there was suitable accommodation at the Kings Lodge base.
▪ Particular difficulties with regard to finding suitable accommodation at the right price, have been experienced by married students arriving with their families.
▪ Some follies, however, do not provide suitable accommodation or are simply too small.
▪ He was seeking advice with regard to the Council's refusal to rehouse him in suitable ground floor accommodation.
▪ If you have a family, you should have organised suitable long-term accommodation before bringing them with you to Edinburgh.
temporary
▪ Brian, you and Kerrie have been in temporary accommodation since January 1991.
▪ Until then, Ted is staying in temporary accommodation and praying that lightning never strikes 3 times in the same place.
▪ The local authority brought proceedings in the county court for possession of the temporary accommodation.
▪ It is temporary accommodation which puts most permanent local housing to shame.
▪ With the help of the Village Retail Services Association it formed a co-operative to run a village store in temporary accommodation.
▪ It is estimated more than 2,000 people now sleep on London's streets and another 50,000 in various forms of temporary accommodation.
▪ We do not pay the cost of meals at the temporary accommodation. 2.
▪ The building has twice been enlarged and now has temporary accommodation.
■ NOUN
breakfast
▪ The authority spent £18,500 on bed and breakfast accommodation because its existing hostel was full.
▪ Families favour the Arts Centre over bed and breakfast accommodation because it offers a greater privacy.
▪ For an increasing number of them, bed and breakfast accommodation is all that can be found and many stay there indefinitely.
▪ Sixty-five National Trust tenants offer bed and breakfast accommodation in beautiful areas of countryside protected by the Trust.
▪ Has reduced the number of families in bed and breakfast accommodation.
▪ Last night 100 families were being housed in bed and breakfast accommodation the first time the total has reached three figures.
▪ Last February, fewer than 50 families were in bed and breakfast accommodation in the town.
▪ We will fund the provision of short-term rented housing to reduce the use of bed and breakfast accommodation.
hotel
▪ We chose Bedford as it was almost the only place in the locality where hotel accommodation was available.
▪ Included in the cost are round-trip airfare from New York, hotel accommodations, kosher breakfasts and dinners, sightseeing and transfers.
▪ Continue your journey south for a late arrival at your hotel accommodation.
▪ After the war everything cost more: gasoline, buses, hotel accommodations, and musicians' salaries.
▪ The price of your fly-drive holiday includes both car hire and hotel accommodation vouchers.
▪ An allowance is made for unused hotel accommodation in Bangkok.
▪ The hotel accommodation is provided by the Friendly Hotels Group.
▪ At what point do tour operators firmly reserve their hotel accommodation?
office
▪ The issues are revenue grant aid and the acquisition of new office accommodation.
▪ On new office accommodation the Council will explain the latest position regarding the new building at South Gyle.
▪ The train has its own telephone exchange and electricity generating car, plus office accommodations and restaurant cars for the royal entourage.
▪ He invested £10,000 in office accommodation and equipment - but the deal never materialised.
▪ In addition, Abbey National provides office accommodation for the Centre.
▪ The space released in Senate House will provide some much-needed additional office accommodation.
▪ Don't forget your production facilities, your office accommodation, your transport fleet.
▪ It proved to planners and developers that modern, desirable office accommodation could be provided in existing buildings.
student
▪ We've checked the student accommodation she was using.
▪ Institutions do not provide enough student accommodation.
▪ He prefers student accommodation in towns with universities, such as Nottingham or Portsmouth, Leicester and Newcastle.
■ VERB
arrange
▪ Having changed money in one office, I was directed to another office a few streets away to arrange accommodation.
▪ Would it be possible to arrange accommodation? 5.
▪ Perhaps she should have let Signor Candiano arrange her accommodation and meet her.
▪ Michael can arrange hotel accommodation, baby sitting and much more for you.
find
▪ He said the association was trying to find accommodation for the residents.
▪ He chose accessible routes, found accommodations in remote areas and was knowledgeable about local plants, animals and customs.
▪ A prisoner release organisation was helping him find accommodation.
▪ Should they digress they would be asked to find other accommodation forthwith.
▪ Citalia customers have been coming here for over 30 years and find simple accommodation and furnishings - fresh and spotlessly kept.
▪ Promising herself that she would explore it all properly later, she set off to find accommodation.
▪ These pressures are much greater among the young who are attempting to find their own accommodation for the first time.
▪ Senior mandarins had gone to the trouble of finding accommodation for Labour's promised Ministry for Women.
include
▪ Cost: $ 275 per person, double occupancy, including accommodations and some meals.
▪ The Census includes questions about living accommodation.
▪ They include accommodations at your choice of two YMCAs.
▪ The price, which includes accommodation, meals and all course literature, is £295 per person; £420 per couple.
▪ The trip includes airfare, accommodation, car rental and admission tickets to the golf course for all practice and match days.
▪ The booklet was criticised during its draft stages for including details of accommodation such a long distance away.
▪ Your holiday price includes transfers, accommodation and meals as shown in each hotel description.
live
▪ Intermediate indicator - to reduce the proportion of low income tenants living in substandard accommodation.
▪ Claimants will be discouraged from living in accommodation too large for their needs.
▪ The highest concentrations of divorced people living with parents are to be found among men whose parents live in local authority accommodation.
▪ Higher percentages of the elderly than of the general adult population live in accommodation built before 1919 that is often poorly maintained.
▪ Well, I live in sheltered accommodation and, believe me, I have to pay the full licence fee.
▪ Most lived within or near Camden or some lived as far away as Kiburn.all lived in Socially assisted accommodation.
▪ At present 68 live in accommodation intended for 55.
▪ Being compelled to live in accommodation not of one's own choosing.
move
▪ They were moved to different accommodation but claimed it was little better.
▪ Most of the firms affected were open for business on Monday morning; all had moved into temporary accommodation by mid-week.
offer
▪ The management prides itself on offering comfortable accommodation in elegant surroundings, and puts an emphasis on providing excellent service.
▪ Middlesbrough woman Gwen Lamb was shocked to discover that anyone can offer residential accommodation to the most vulnerable in society.
▪ He and his wife had offered us accommodation with them from the time my curacy finished until after the expedition.
▪ International Chapters offers flexible accommodation arrangements and will be happy to advise on alternative travel plans.
▪ We stayed in the Hotel du Bourg, which offers two-star accommodation on a bed-and-breakfast basis.
▪ Several can offer overnight accommodation to pilots socked-inn by weather.
pay
▪ One would be looking to the Navarrans to pay accommodation.
provide
▪ A wing was converted in keeping with the existing architecture of the hall to provide accommodation for families and disabled guests.
▪ Accommodation may be offered even if there is a person with parental responsibility able to provide accommodation for the child.
▪ This general power to provide accommodation on welfare grounds applies only to children under the age of 18 years.
▪ If your accommodation has to be changed we will do our best to provide alternative accommodation of similar or higher official classification.
▪ The rehabilitation unit provides accommodation for up to six weeks for elderly people discharged from hospital.
▪ The tower provided shore accommodation for keepers and kept in communication with the lighthouse by means of flagstaff signals and carrier pigeons.
▪ The men had not a dry thread on their bodies; there was not a dugout that could provide dry accommodation.
▪ Mountain huts provide meals and accommodation around Oberalppass.
reach
▪ Full details of how to reach your accommodation will be sent in good time before your holiday is due to commence.
▪ Nixon and Reagan were quite adept at reaching accommodations with Congress.
▪ A will also be justified in reaching an accommodation with B rather than exercising his strict legal rights under the contract.
▪ The only alternative, therefore, is to reach an accommodation with the opposition.
▪ They could reach no sane accommodation about sharing and are, Kausmann reports, no longer together.
▪ Party leaders eventually reached accommodation with the insurgent lawmakers.
▪ Self-interest now propels both Clinton and Republican leaders in Congress to reach accommodation on issues that long have divided them.
▪ P officials after they were turned down, to see if they could reach some accommodation.
rent
▪ Students not in residential places usually rent accommodation or take lodgings in the city.
▪ As a result, they need to rent accommodation.
▪ The result, says Shelter, is that many asylum seekers are living in overcrowded private rented accommodation with friends and family.
▪ Private rented accommodation has been increasingly freed of rent control, taking it beyond the reach of the young homeless.
▪ Inevitably, therefore, the individual must usually rent accommodation rather than own a property.
▪ To bring up two children alone in rented accommodation is so difficult.
require
▪ I would therefore require the available accommodation in Warriston's Close during 1993/94 to accommodate probably 50 plus staff for this purpose.
▪ Concepts of oak trees and how they differ from other types of trees require assimilation and accommodation of relevant experience.
▪ The first indication that a person requires accommodation is through a request for a reservation.
▪ What is required is adequate special accommodation, along with the necessary health facilities.
▪ Also, should you require overnight accommodation don't leave the booking until the last minute.
▪ There are no high or low seasons for business people and they will often require their accommodation at short notice.
seek
▪ His strategy of seeking an accommodation with Labour was bitterly opposed by many Liberals.
▪ Try to alter her flight and go home tomorrow? Seek alternative accommodation somewhere, via the local tourist board maybe?
▪ The Service also operates as an agency which puts students seeking rented accommodation in touch with owners of vacant accommodation.
▪ The traveller may thereafter accept the terms of the offer, or reject them and seek accommodation elsewhere.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
rented accommodation/housing/apartment etc
▪ Ed, who lives in rented accommodation, plans to use the money as a down-payment on a house.
▪ Many are trapped in the inner cores because of the unavailability of rented housing beyond the cities.
▪ Many potential homeowners decided to sit out the recession in rented accommodation, leaving their money in high-earning accounts.
▪ The group will also recommend improved access to private rented accommodation through rent deposit schemes.
▪ The report points out that the idea of local housing companies as landlord bodies for social rented housing originated in Glasgow.
▪ They remain very vulnerable in privately rented accommodation as they can often be ignorant of their rights.
▪ This would apply to rented accommodation, council houses, etc.
▪ Those in public and privately rented housing do not obtain the same sense of personal identity.
sheltered accommodation/housing
▪ A regional study of difficult-to-let sheltered accommodation for older people Falshaw, Richard.
▪ Apartments opened A £725,000 sheltered housing scheme for the elderly was officially opened in Irvinestown today.
▪ For example, little sheltered housing has been constructed for the old and disabled.
▪ Shortly after buying it, Denega was refused listed building consent to demolish the chapel and develop 21 sheltered accommodation units.
▪ The sheltered housing is close to local amenities to allow residents easy access to shops and other facilities.
▪ The issue is to decide the extent to which sufferers may be supported and maintained in sheltered housing.
▪ We have sheltered accommodation, with understanding professional staff, for blind men and women who are unable to look after themselves.
▪ With it went planning consent for the sheltered accommodation units.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Accommodations must be made for students with learning disabilities.
▪ I've been looking in the newspapers for student accommodation but it's all so expensive.
▪ The cost of rented accommodation keeps going up.
▪ The cost of the six-day trip includes meals and motel accommodations.
▪ The holiday costs about £400 for a week's accommodation and flights.
▪ The price includes flights, accommodation and transport.
▪ There needs to be more accommodation by both sides.
▪ You won't find any really luxurious accommodations, but there are adequate hotels and guest houses.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Contrary to modem popular opinion these were splendid ships with excellent accommodation and many modern conveniences for both crew and passengers.
▪ He says the cost of building pensioner's accommodation on the site could rocket to £50,000 per unit.
▪ Her clients would be over the moon at the accommodation in this particular hotel.
▪ In fact, many of our guests ask for accommodations here each time they come.
▪ It appears to be about matters of accommodation and staffing.
▪ Some relocation policies exclude new recruits from receiving other allowances, such as travel and accommodation expenses.
▪ The subsidies could in fact be used for converting barns etc for accommodation, and for path building and maintainance.