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accommodation
noun
1 accommodation
Making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances.
synonyms: adjustment, fitting.
Roget 707:
aid,
aidance†;
assistance,
help,
opitulation†,
succor;
support,
lift,
advance,
furtherance,
promotion;
coadjuvancy
etc.
(cooperation)
709†.
patronage,
championship,
countenance,
favor,
interest,
advocacy.
sustentation,
subvention,
alimentation,
nutrition,
nourishment;
eutrophy;
manna in the wilderness;
food
etc.
298;
means
etc.
632.
ministry,
ministration;
subministration†;
accommodation.
relief,
rescue;
help at a dead lift;
supernatural aid;
deus ex machina [Lat.].
supplies,
reinforcements,
reenforcements†,
succors,
contingents,
recruits;
support
etc.
(physical)
215;
adjunct,
ally
etc.
(helper)
711.
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Roget 723:
pacification,
conciliation;
reconciliation,
reconcilement;
shaking of hands,
accommodation,
arrangement,
adjustment;
terms,
compromise;
amnesty,
deed of release.
peace offering;
olive branch;
calumet of peace,
preliminaries of peace.
truce,
armistice;
suspension of arms,
suspension of hostilities,
stand-down;
breathing time;
convention;
modus vivendi [Lat.];
flag of truce,
white flag,
parlementaire [Fr.],
cartel†.
hollow truce,
pax in bello [Lat.];
drawn battle.
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Roget 23:
agreement;
accord,
accordance;
unison,
harmony;
concord
etc.
714;
concordance,
concert;
understanding,
mutual understanding.
conformity
etc.
82;
conformance;
uniformity
etc.
16;
consonance,
consentaneousness†,
consistency;
congruity,
congruence;
keeping;
congeniality;
correspondence,
parallelism,
apposition,
union.
fitness,
aptness
etc.
adj.;
relevancy;
pertinence,
pertinencey†;
sortance†;
case in point;
aptitude,
coaptation†,
propriety,
applicability,
admissibility,
commensurability,
compatibility;
cognation
etc.
(relation)
9.
adaption†,
adjustment,
graduation,
accommodation;
reconciliation,
reconcilement;
assimilation.
consent
etc.
(assent)
488;
concurrence
etc.
178;
cooperation
etc.
709.
right man in the right place,
very thing;
quite the thing,
just the thing.
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Roget 787:
lending
etc.
v.;
loan,
advance,
accommodation,
feneration†;
mortgage,
second mortgage,
home loan
etc.
(security)
771;
investment;
note,
bond,
commercial paper.
mont de piete [Fr.],
pawnshop,
my uncle's.
lender,
pawnbroker,
money lender;
usurer,
loan shark.
loaner
(of item loaned).
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Dutch: afstemming
Polish: dostosowywanie, przystosowywanie
2 accommodation
A settlement of differences.
3 accommodation
In the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality.
Polish: akomodacja
4 accommodation
Living quarters provided for public convenience.
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 natural lens of the eye.
Dutch: accommodatie
Polish: akomodacja, nastawność oka, nastawność
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