accommodation

noun15

1. •
   Adaptation or adjustment.
2. •
   (UK, Australia) Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or students, etc.

   • I have booked the accommodation for my trip to Paris.
3. •
   The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.

   • 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 — 1677
4. •
   The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.
5. •
   The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.
6. •
   Modification(s) to make one's way of communicating similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse.
7. •
   Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.
8. •
   Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
9. •
   A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.
10. •
    A loan of money.
11. •
    An accommodation bill or note.
12. •
    An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.
13. •
    The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.

    • 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. — 1794
14. •
    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.
15. •
    The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.