Thesaurus: accommodation

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1. n. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to.
2. n. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
3. n. 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. n. An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement.
5. n. The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
6. n. A loan of money.
7. n. An accommodation bill or note.
8. n. making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances
9. n. a settlement of differences
10. n. in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality
11. n. living quarters provided for public convenience
12. n. the act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need