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/əˌkɒm.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/
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/əˌkɑ.məˈdeɪ.ʃən/
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/əˌkɔm.əˈdæɪ.ʃən/
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ə.ˌkɒm.ə.ˈdeɪ.ʃən
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ə.ˌkɑm.ə.ˈdeɪ.ʃən
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Noun
Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or students, etc.
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I have booked the accommodation for my trip to Paris.
So, it's settled. I'm going to Penzance. Hooray! I've even booked my accommodation.
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If you’re looking for a Caribbean adventure with luxurious accommodation then this is the place for you.
Their accommodation that day was the Uganda Wildlife Authority Student Education Centre at Paraa. This area was not typically visited by foreign tourists because it offered only basic amenities. Lightly furnished rooms and shared bathrooms were found in the outbuildings.
Adaptation or adjustment. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.
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It is true, the organization of the humane and animal Body, with accommodation to their several functions and offices, is certainly fitted with the most curious and exact Mechanism imaginable
Adaptation or adjustment. A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.
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...and Lady Anne, for the present, felt as if Fanchette and her coach full of accommodations, heavy as they might once be supposed to be, were suddenly swallowed up in that awful sea, to which so many refractory spirits have been exorcised and consigned.
Mr. Cooke had had a sloop yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.
Adaptation or adjustment. The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.
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Adaptation or adjustment. The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.
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Adaptation or adjustment. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
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Adaptation or adjustment. Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.
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Some of the recent literature on the Germanic settlements reads like an account of a tea party at the Roman vicarage. A shy newcomer to the village, who is a useful prospect for the cricket team, is invited in. There is a brief moment of awkwardness, while the host finds an empty chair and pours a fresh cup of tea; but the conversation, and village life, soon flow on. The accommodation that was reached between invaders and invaded in the fifth- and sixth-century West was very much more difficult, and more interesting, than this.
Adaptation or adjustment. The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
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It is probable to my apprehension, that many of those quotations were intended by the writers of the New Testament as nothing more than accommodations.
Adaptation or adjustment. A loan of money.
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- personal
Adaptation or adjustment. An accommodation bill or note.
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Adaptation or adjustment. An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.
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- personal
Adaptation or adjustment. An adaptation or method of interpretation which explains the special form in which the revelation is presented as unessential to its contents, or rather as often adopted by way of compromise with human ignorance or weakness.
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The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.
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Modification(s) to make one's way of communicating similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse.
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Pilots […] use the word fuselage whereas laypeople would more likely call the same "thing" the body of an aircraft. […] We have said above that speakers often signal that they belong to a certain group by making their language more similar to that of the other group members […] we thus adapt our language, dialect, accent, style and/or register to that of our addressee or addressees. This process is called speech accommodation. Among the reasons for accommodation may be our desire to identify more closely with the addressee(s), […]
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making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances
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a settlement of differences
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they reached an accommodation with Japan
in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality
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living quarters provided for public convenience
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the nearby hotel offers overnight accommodation
the act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need
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(physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the natural lens of the eye
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