Accommodation

n.	1.
	1.	The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; - followed by to.
	2.	Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
	3.	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.
	4.	An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement.
	5.	The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended. Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations. - Paley.
	6.	(Com.) A loan of money. Accommodation bill (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 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.

Noun	1.	accommodation - making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances Synonyms: adjustment, fitting
	2.	accommodation - a settlement of differences; "they reached an accommodation with Japan"
	3.	accommodation - in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality
	4.	accommodation - living quarters provided for public convenience; "overnight accommodations are available"
	5.	accommodation - the act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need
	6.	accommodation - (physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the lens of the eye

ACCOMMODATION, contracts. An amicable agreement or composition between two contending parties. It differs from accord and satisfaction, which may take place without any difference having existed between the parties.

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