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What does accommodation mean?

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Noun
  1. (chiefly Britain, 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. (physical) Adaptation or adjustment.
    1. (countable, uncountable, followed by to) The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.
    2. (countable, uncountable) A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.
    3. (physiology) The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.
    4. (medicine) The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.
  3. (personal) Adaptation or adjustment.
    1. (countable, uncountable) Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
    2. (countable, uncountable) Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.
    3. (countable) The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
    4. (countable, commerce) A loan of money.
    5. (countable, commerce) An accommodation bill or note.
    6. (countable, law) An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.
  4. (countable, geology) The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.
  5. (linguistics) Modifications to make one's way of speaking similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse.
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He alleged MPs had received car hire, hotel accommodation and other advantages by means of travel warrants to which they had not been entitled.
He now abortively sought accommodation with the Tuscan moderates and Leopold.
It belongs to an underdeveloped genre critical of our wholesale accommodation to technology.
Chancellor has said he will abolish hospital accommodation charges for pensioners.
He also required large domestic quarters with gardens for himself and his family as well as administrative accommodation.
The majority of Canadians prefer the package deals, which, in the main, include airfare, hotel accommodation, drinks, food and entertainment.

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