accommodationn.
/əˌkɒməˈdeɪʃn/, U.S. /əˌkɑməˈdeɪʃ(ə)n/ 1. Adaptation; the process of being adapted.
a. The action or an act of adapting or applying a word, expression, or system to something different from its original purpose; spec. (Theology) in the context of an Old Testament passage referenced in the New Testament. Also: an interpretation, a redaction.
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1566 J. Rastell Treat.: Beware of M. Iewel i. iii. sig. Hjv If you allude onlye to that place, and by accommodation make a further meaning of it: let it be writen then, in the cursiue letter of your owne wordes, so much as is not expressely in the Scripture.
1613 P. Forbes Comm. Rev. vi. 41 Now, for right accommodation of Story to these Seales, wee must flie two extremities, wherein many Interpreters falling, breed to themselues great difficulties, and darken cleare matter.
1631 W. Twisse Discov. D. Iacksons Vanitie ii. xv. 534 If you take a liberty to put upon us the opinions and accommodations of distinctions used by Papists, you may in the next place make doubt, whether wee have not subscribed to the Councell of Trent.
a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) VII. 28 It was not Paul's design, to use these words..by way of citation out of David; but having by a kind of transumption and accommodation borrowed those former words of his.
1724 A. Collins Disc. Grounds Christian Relig. 212 The frequent accommodation of the Septuagint Version to the later Hebrew.
1860 R. C. Trench Serm. in Westm. Abbey ix. 92 The adaptation or accommodation of a prophecy..having properly no allusion to Him at all.
1871 O. S. Munsell Psychology 127 The concept is simply a name borrowed or abstracted from some concrete individual percept, and applied by accommodation to other percepts.
1907 Catholic Encycl. I. 99/2 By accommodation is understood the adaptation of words or sentences from Sacred Scripture to signify ideas different from those expressed by the sacred author.
1958 J. I. Packer ‘Fundamentalism’ & Word of God iv. 79 Those who credit Evangelicals with belief in ‘dictation’ often appeal to the thought of accommodation as the correct alternative to that view.
1999 E. Ferguson Baptism in Early Church 111 An early attestation of the accommodation of the words of the heavenly voice to Psalm 2:7.
b. gen. Adaptation, adjustment, modification; an instance of this.
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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > adaptation or adjustment > [noun]
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justing1582
suiting1601
adaptation1610
adapting1610
accommodation1612
adaption1615
adjustment1644
contemperation1654
squaring1702
adaptment1786
adjustage1819
1612 J. Cotta Short Discouerie Dangers Ignorant Practisers Physicke iii. iii. 132 More distinct, iudicious and truly vnderstanding accommodation from more prudent right deliberation.
1630 R. Sibbes Brvised Reede ii. 66 We see ambitious men study accommodation of themselves to the humours of those by whom they hope to raise themselves.
1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 58 Gestures and motions must come in with their accommodation.
1773 J. Reynolds Disc. Royal Acad. 15 Skilful accommodation of other men's conceptions to his own purpose.
1783 H. Blair Lect. Rhetoric I. ix. 175 The flexibility of a Language, or its power of accommodation to different styles and manners.
1837 Brit. Critic Apr. 314 The massy proportion given by Romanesque artists to the column itself, was only an accommodation of the character of that feature to its use.
1975 N. Frye in Preserving Canad. Heritage (Royal Soc. Canada) i. 16 The railways and highways that emphasize direction through landscape rather than accommodation to it.
1995 Abilities (Toronto) Spring 60/1 If needed, [students] are sent for a full assessment before recommendations are made regarding what accommodations they need. These can include notetakers, books on tape or extra exam time.
c. Self-adaptation; flexibility; conciliatory disposition or conduct, obligingness. Also: an instance of this; a favour, a concession.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > [noun] > obligingness or complaisance > as quality or disposition
accommodation1632
compliance1667
accommodativeness1834
1632 W. Struther Looking Glasse for Princes & People iii. 84 Politicks call this mixture [of religion] an Accommodation or Toleration: the Cassandrians call it a mitigation or condescending; and Atheists call it a libertie of conscience which is nothing but a passe-port to runne to hell.
1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 4 When I had..drank the King of France's health, to satisfy my mind that I bore him no spleen..I rose up an inch taller for the accommodation.
1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. viii. 524 His object in these accommodations was to draw over the more moderate catholics.
1830 J. Mackintosh Diss. Progress Ethical Philos. 129 Accommodation, without which society would be painful, and arduous affairs would become impracticable.
1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iii. §4. 12 What was Judaism itself..but a great system of accommodation?
a1916 H. James Other House ii. in Compl. Plays (1949) 728 You take my accommodation for granted, I suppose, because you've worked so long to produce the impression, which no one, for your good fortune, has gainsaid, that she's safe only in your hands.
1932 W. Faulkner Light in August 469 Wherever you could take us, it would be a big accommodation.
1985 D. Lucie Hard Feelings i. ii, in Progress & Hard Feelings 55/2 No compromise. No accommodation. I don't suffer fools gladly.
2002 N.Y. Times 4 Aug. (Washington Final ed.) ix. 1/1 A period of ‘secondary virginity’..is..an accommodation to the modern reality of premarital sex and the traditional disapproval of it in the Bible Belt.
d. Physiology. The ability to focus on objects at different distances from the eye; the process of doing this, typically involving changes in the shape or position of the lens of the eye.
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1738 W. Porterfield in Med. Ess. & Observ. (ed. 2) IV. xiv. 148 Seeing then that we are so liable to be mistaken in the Judgment we form of the Distance of Objects seen through a perforated Card, it needs be no Surprize that the Eye should not be accommodated to their true Distance; and that, for want of this Accommodation, they should appear multiplied.
1759 M. Flemyng Introd. Physiol. Table of Contents p. xi Accommodation of the eye to the different distances of objects.
1793 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 83 169 How this accommodation is effected, has long been a matter of dispute, and has not yet been satisfactorily explained.
1839 London Encycl. VIII. 767/2 The arguments in favor of an increase of the convexity of the crystalline lens are of two kinds; some of them are negative, derived from the impossibility of imagining any other mode of performing the accommodation without exceeding the limits of the actual dimensions of the eye.
1877 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (ed. 2) i. i. i. 252 The power of accommodation, and consequent ability to read fine print, does not show any marked decrease till twenty-five minutes have elapsed.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xx. 560 The eyes [of birds] are unsurpassed in their power of rapid focusing, or accommodation.
1987 Seguin (Texas) Gaz.-Enterprise 16 June 7/3 To enable the eye to focus on closer objects, the ciliary muscles of the eye thicken and contract the lens, a process that is known as accommodation.
2008 R. H. H. Kröger & G. Katzir in J. G. M. Thewissen & S. Nummela Sensory Evol. on Threshold ix. 125/2 Accommodation [in squamates] is achieved by moving the lens anteriorly, as in elasmobranchs and amphibians.
e. Linguistics. The action of adapting, adjusting, or assimilating one linguistic feature to another; an instance of this. Cf. accommodate v. 2e.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > sound changes > [noun] > assimilation
accommodation1841
assimilation1850
regressive assimilation?1862
progressive assimilation1872
reciprocal assimilation1885
1841 R. G. Latham Eng. Lang. ii. iv. 122 Hence a process of accommodation by which the word becomes either tupt or tufth.
1871 B. H. Kennedy Public School Lat. Gram. 18 Incomplete Assimilation or Accommodation takes place when the former Consonant is changed, not to the latter, but to one more akin to this in sound.
1925 P. Radin tr. J. Vendryes Language i. iii. 59 In the first case accommodation takes place, in the second case epenthesis.
1932 G. S. Gordon & C. T. Onions in Medium Ævum 1 127 It is necessary to suppose an English accommodation of the Scandinavian word to account for the forms that the word presents in our dialects.
1998 M. D. Usher Homeric Stitchings ii. iii. 38 Grammatical accommodation often occurs within Homer when the words of one protagonist are reported to another.
f. The action of adapting or adjusting effectively to new or changed conditions.
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1873 A. Bain Mind & Body 83 Under a fresh shock this accommodation operates by diminishing the interval of transition.
1895 J. M. Baldwin Mental Devel. vii. 217 Accommodation as it is best to call it in psychology, adaptation in biology.
1906 Proc. Washington Acad. Sci. 8 328 Their [sc. organisms'] normal diversities and powers of individual accommodation to different external conditions.
1976 A. Campbell et al. Quality of Amer. Live iii. xiv. 485 The varying degrees of accommodation that have occurred, as a function of the length of time spent in the situation.
2001 C. M. Sinopoli in S. E. Alcock et al. Empires iii. 196 More or less stable organizational patterns may emerge and endure for long periods; however, change and accommodation to change are always part of the equation.
g. Linguistics and Sociology. More fully communication accommodation, speech accommodation. The action or process of adjusting one's style of speech or interaction in accordance with or in response to that of one's interlocutors. Cf. accommodation theory n. at Compounds 2.
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1973 H. Giles et al. in Lang. in Society 2 187 It has been proposed that speech accommodation may occur out of a desire for social integration between speakers.
1994 J. Mulholland Handbk. Persuasive Tactics 22 Though the similarities that are created by accommodation may only reside in the superficial aspects of language—word choice, pronunciations, etc., their depth of effect belies this.
1997 D. Dickson et al. Communication Skills Training for Health Professionals (ed. 2) 151 Similarity of language (accent, terminology, etc.) has also been shown to aid compliance and is part of communication accommodation, wherein an attempt is made to converge towards vocal, verbal and non-verbal responses of the other person in order to enhance the relationship.
2010 P. Trudgill Investig. in Sociohist. Linguistics 186 The fundamental mechanism leading to dialect mixture is accommodation in face-to-face interaction.
2. Provision of what is suitable, necessary, or convenient.
a. Financial aid in an emergency; a loan. Now rare.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > loan
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the mind > possession > giving > lending > [noun] > (a) loan
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1595 M. Mosse Arraignm. Usurie ii. 41 The vsurer doth not accommodate his goodes, or practise that kinde of lending which we call accommodation.
1743 W. Bohun Declar. & Pleadings 405 For the Loan and Accommodation of the said 100l. and for giving the..Repayment therof for the Time aforesaid.
1790 A. Hamilton in Deb. Congr. U.S. (1834) II. App. 2058 The accommodations which they might derive in the way of their business, at a low rate.
1807 W. Scott Let. Nov. (1932) I. 411 With respect to accomodations in my opinion we ought to get rid of all that floating balance which..has hitherto kept us in a state of poverty.
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well II. ii. 38 There is maybe a bill discounted now and then, Mr Touchwood; but men must have accommodation, or the world would stand still—accommodation is the grease that makes the wheels go.
1868 J. E. T. Rogers Man. Polit. Econ. (ed. 3) xi. 142 Persons pay highly for accommodation, because they have no security, or no good security, to offer.
1882 Daily News July 3 (advt.) Cash Accommodation.—Respectable Householders in town or country supplied with money at moderate interest.
1904 Charities 7 May 500/1 In paying sixty dollars for an accommodation of fifteen you are paying interest at the rate of three hundred per cent.
1920 Cosmopolitan Oct. 136/3 A farmer who desired an accommodation of a thousand dollars for the purpose of buying a tractor.
b. The action of supplying with what is suitable or necessary, esp. for the comfort or convenience of a person; (hence) something which fulfils a need, or provides assistance, comfort, or convenience. Now rare.
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the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > action of providing or supplying
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the world > action or operation > advantage > convenience > [noun] > a convenience
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > [noun] > useful thing > anything which can supply a human need
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1612 J. Cotta Short Discouerie Dangers Ignorant Practisers Physicke i. v. 43 Neither do I commend a trembling and timorous iudgement in prescription and accomodation therof.
1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) v. x. 539 When a man liueth farre from his necessarie accommodations, as from his fuell, his fencing, his timber.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Wilts. 145 Wilton is the stateliest and pleasantest for Gardens, Fountains, and other accommodations.
1666 Proc. Upper House 20 Apr. in W. H. Browne Arch. Maryland (1884) II. 27 Your Petitioner having undertaken to build a Stadt House for the Accomodation of the Country in such manner as to your Honours is generally known.
1737 S. Johnson Rambler No. 145. ⁋1 The meanest artisan or manufacturer contributes more to the accommodation of life, than the profound scholar and argumentative theorist.
1778 J. Reynolds 7 Disc. Royal Acad. Ded. sig. A3 The regular progress of cultivated life is from Necessaries to Accommodations, from Accommodations to Ornaments.
1793 W. Hodges Trav. India 39 Besides this boat, a gentleman is usually attended by two others; a pulwah for the accommodation of the kitchen, and a smaller boat.
1817 W. Pitt Topogr. Hist. Staffs. i. 162 Almost every house in the village has a small garden in front, which contributes at once to the beauty of the place and the accommodation of its inhabitants.
1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. Introd. 6 They probably thought of the coach with some contempt, as an accommodation for people who had not their own gigs.
1885 Standard 6 Mar. 3/2 There was..a refreshment bar on the up platform, but no such accommodation on the island platform.
1912 Trans. Indiana Hort. Soc. 1911 122 It will be a great accommodation to us if such work is reported immediately.
c. Room and provision for the reception of people, esp. with regard to sleeping, seating, or entertainment; living premises, lodgings. In early examples not always fully distinguishable from sense 2b.
(a) As a mass noun. Also: the action of supplying such room and provision.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun]
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 237 Such accomodation..and besort As leuels with her breeding. View more context for this quotation
1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect ii. vii. 70 These Indians be very hospitable..caring to provide accommodation correspondent to their English custome.
1650 O. Cromwell Let. 4 Sept. (Carlyle) 92 The having of a garrison there would furnish us with accommodation for our sick men.
1724 T. Townsend tr. A. de Solis Hist. Conquest Mexico ii. xvii. 143 There was not sufficient Accommodation for all to be under Cover; but the Zempoalans took Care of themselves, building Huts in a very short Time.
1793 W. Hodges Trav. India 103 A small house in a large garden, which was allotted for my accommodation during my stay.
1846 Penny Cycl. Suppl. II. 667/2 When..in working branch lines, a carriage must be sent through for the accommodation of only two or three passengers.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xvi. 192 Our sole accommodation a tent barely able to contain eight persons.
1907 Northwest Poultry Jrnl. June 33/1 (advt.) An ideal location, large comfortable rooms, first-class restaurant and large kitchen for the accomodation of guests, make this an ideal stopping place.
1978 Morecambe Guardian 14 Mar. 24/2 (advt.) Accommodation comprises: entrance hall, lounge, dining room, kitchen, 2 bedrooms, bathroom/WC.
2001 Sun 27 Jan. 57/3 A range of accommodation from the swanky if impersonal Sails In The Desert Hotel to the Outback Pioneer Lodge for the budget-conscious.
(b) As a count noun in plural. Now U.S.
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1642 Ld. G. Digby Apol. 7 Many Souldiers, and Commanders..provided their owne accommodations at Kingston, the next place of receipt, and still so used for the over-plus of company.
?1672 Reasons suppressing Stage-coaches 2 These Travellers would disperse themselves into the several Inns on the Roads, each man where he could find best Accommodations, and thereby..Inholders encouraged to provide Accommodations for their Guests.
1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 387 These had Accommodations assign'd them in the great Cabbin.
1798 T. Jones Memoirs (1951) 50 Arrived at Pietra Mala at ½ past 5—a lone house..Our accomodations here were very bad.
1803 J. Porter Thaddeus of Warsaw (1831) xi. 100 The Hummums, Covent Garden, has as good accommodations as any in town.
1879 F. R. Stockton Rudder Grange xi. 121 We did not wish to invite our friends to the camp..we had no accommodations for them.
1931 C. S. Johnson Negro in Amer. Civilization xxiv. 338 The wastefulness of exactly dual accommodations [for Black and White passengers in railway trains].
1984 V. Anand To Native Shore (1985) ii. vii. 233 The Devines at the Fishing Boat had arranged sleeping accommodations as well.
2006 R. Chandrasekaran Imperial Life in Emerald City (2007) ii. 35 They would have to find their own accommodations. The only place with enough beds was a Hilton beach resort.
d. Suitable or sufficient space to hold or contain something, esp. a specified number of people or things; room enough for something to be accommodated (in sense 3g of the verb). Also: the fact or action of supplying this.
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the world > space > [noun] > sufficient space or room
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1638 H. Hexam tr. S. Marolois & A. Girard Art Fortification ii. 3 All the angles wilbe right, which afterwards may be made angles of the Bulwarks, when there is accommodation to make a fort royall thereof.
1740 T. Crosby Hist. Eng. Baptists IV. iii. 273 They had frequently occasion, to enlarge the place of their assembling, so that at length it became a place large enough for the accommodation of near a thousand people.
1805 G. Barry Hist. Orkney ii. 59 Formerly, it [sc. a harbour] afforded accommodation for ships of much greater burden.
1864 Primitive Methodist Mag. Oct. 627/1 The chapel contains 200 sittings, 46 of them free, and the school-room provides accommodation for 70 more.
1909 National Geographic Mag. June 566/1 I suspect that the cart is constructed primarily for the accommodation of barrels of cider.
1920 Internat. Jrnl. Orthodontia & Oral Surg. Sept. 536 Its basin-like depression for the accommodation of the lingual cusp of the upper bicuspidate first molar.
2009 J. L. McDonough Wars of Myron King ii. 26 The big tail, which led airmen to fondly dub the fortress ‘the big-ass bird’, also provided accommodation for a gunner and two .50-caliber machine guns.
e. U.S. = accommodation stage n., accommodation train n. at Compounds 2. Now rare.
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1829 A. Royall Pennsylvania II. 9 I..intended to take the Accommodation in the morning.
1877 ‘E. W. Martin’ Hist. Great Riots 117 The Sharpsville ‘accommodation’..had been lying for two hours without an engine.
1891 S. A. Drake Pine-Tree Coast xi. 163 This was too fast for ordinary travellers, who preferred taking the ‘accommodation’, which made the trip in two days.
1909 F. B. Calhoun Miss Minerva 208 They went on the excursion and Sam Lamb is bringing them home on the accommodation.
1923 Boys' Life Aug. 18/1 Every evening he took the accommodation down from Pemberton, returning by it on the morning run up the line.
1970 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. I. (at cited word) Accommodation—stops at any stop it comes to and anything in between.
3. A convenient arrangement, a compromise; a resolution of a dispute; a settlement, treaty, or agreement (between). Also: the action of arriving at such an agreement.
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society > armed hostility > peace > pacification > peace treaty > [noun]
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society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > bringing about concord or peace > [noun] > settling quarrels or disputes > agreement or settlement
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1624 Briefe Information Affaires Palatinate 43 The King..sent the Vicount Doncaster, Councellor in his Councels of Estate..to mediate an accommodation betweene the said Ferdinand, and the said Estates of Bohemia.
1649 J. Jubbes Apol. unto Officers Lord Generals Army 7 Certain it is policy of God that when you find the great Steerers of State to be corrupt, though but a little, to endeavour an accommodation, and to meet with others interest (if) in a firm way.
1689 R. Milward Selden's Table-talk 28 'Tis hard to make an accommodation between the King and the Parliament.
1727 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman II. i. xii. 288 He will bring all Differences to a friendly Accommodation.
1762 A. Mitchell Let. 6 Aug. in Mem. & Papers Sir A. Mitchell (1850) II. xiv. 333 He wishes to see how the campaign is like to end before he begins to speak of terms and accommodation.
1775 J. H. Norton Let. 9 Dec. in John Norton & Sons (1968) 391 It appears to me that they will lose the Colonies unless a Speedy Accommodation takes Place.
1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. i. vi. 200 Negotiations were now opened for an accommodation between the belligerents.
1881 Pall Mall Gaz. 16 Aug. 2/1 The direction of his re-phrasings of amendments was a direction of accommodation of differences.
1918 A. G. Gardiner Leaves in Wind 224 Liberty is not a personal affair only, but a social contract. It is an accommodation of interests.
1934 J. L. Myres in E. Eyre European Civilization I. 87 Such accommodation between means and ends, resources and wants, is found to have been achieved, somewhen and somehow, [etc.].
1976 H. Wilson Governance of Brit. ii. 25 Mr Heath spent the weekend trying to reach an accommodation with the Liberal leader.
2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 May 9/2 An accommodation between the Rational Will tradition..and the Hobbesian world of Will and Artifice.
Compounds
C1. General attributive (in sense 2c).Recorded earliest in accommodation house n. at Compounds 2.
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1787 tr. N. Horrebow Descr. Iceland v, in J. Trusler Habitable World Described I. 131 As there are no accommodation houses for travellers, the magistrates..are obliged to take up their lodgings in the churches.
1794 Sporting Mag. Mar. 339/2 The conservatory opens first into an accommodation room, from whence the company may be served with refreshments.
1838 C. B. Skinner Let. 17 May in Parbury's Oriental Herald 2 (1838) 163 An accommodation building at Mocha or Aden..appears to be absolutely necessary for the comfort of passengers, as all complain of the discomfort of having to remain on board the Steamer while the coals are being taken in.
1874 L. J. Kennaway Crusts 175 He fears his driver, whom he has left with the dray and the other half of the team, is getting drunk at the nearest accommodation hut or up-country inn.
1926 Marine Engin. Nov. 623/2 Two oiltight bunkers, which are fitted below the accommodation deck.
1988 Houston Chron. (Electronic text) 8 July 1 Survivors said that when the platform blew up, at least half of those on the rig were in its accommodation block.
2002 D. Aitkenhead Promised Land xix. 189 We climbed a creaky flight of tiny steps to an accommodation office, and twenty minutes later were being handed the keys to an elegant apartment.
C2. † accommodation boat n. Anglo-Indian Obsolete a small boat used to transfer passengers between ship and shore.
accommodation address n. an address used solely or primarily for convenience of correspondence; (frequently) one adopted to conceal the whereabouts of the addressee.
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society > communication > correspondence > sending items > [noun] > addressing letter > address > address for correspondence only
accommodation address1894
mailing address1930
1894 J. G. Littlechild Reminisc. vii. 69 One of their number arranged, on some plausible story, for letters to be received for him at an ‘accommodation address’—generally a small shop.
1958 Economist 16 Aug. 552/2 A pied-à-terre for meetings and an accommodation address and telephone, linked by private line with their main premises.
1995 Independent 19 Oct. (Suppl.) 3/2 Many use accommodation addresses and are untraceable once they have folded.
accommodation bill n. a bill not representing or originating in an actual commercial transaction, but for the purpose of raising money on credit; cf. sense 2a.
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1778 A. Dalrymple Considerations Present State Affairs Eng. & Amer. 34 (heading) Heads for an Accommodation Bill.
1783 Bristol & Bath Mag. 3 122/2 I had called together all my creditors, not omitting those who held the accommodation-bills against me for the 500l.
1803 Edinb. Rev. 2 102 All accommodation bills are iniquitous.
1922 S. J. Weyman Ovington's Bank xxii. 247 They are accommodation bills, and..you and not the acceptors will have to meet them.
1959 P. Mathias Brewing Industry in Eng. iii. xv. 528 Such lending on note was involved with discounting (presumably of real bills rather than accommodation bills).
2005 J. Teranishi Evol. Econ. Syst. Japan v. 139 Increased utilization of rollover credits by means of accommodation bills.
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1793 J. Fawcett Considerations Sending of Missionaries 9 Returning to Calcutta in an accommodation boat, I was obliged to come to, eight or nine miles short of it.
1810 M. Graham Jrnl. Resid. India (1813) 128 A particular police regulates the catamarans, accommodation-boats and bar-boats.
1848 Alfred in India 163 There was one painted more gaily than the rest, called an ‘accommodation-boat’ in which passengers might land if they chose.
accommodation bridge n. a bridge provided for access, esp. one not connected to a public road.
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1792 J. Phillips Gen. Hist. Inland Navigation 365 This is called an accommodation bridge. It hangs by large hooks and eyes, or hinges, and is worked up and down with ease, by means of the balance poles.
1819 A. Rees Cycl. VI. at Canal For occupation, or accommodation bridges..a kind of swing or swivel bridge has..been adopted.
1954 Highway Engin. Terms (B.S.I.) 24 Accommodation bridge, a bridge serving an accommodation road.
1992 S. Hall BR Signalling Handbk. 80/2 It was necessary to construct accommodation bridges and level crossings, which frequently merely give access from a field at one side of the railway to another field at the other side.
accommodation coach n. (a) = accommodation stage n. (now historical); (b) U.S. a railway carriage used for passenger seating (now rare).
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1794 Scholes's Manch. & Salford Directory 190 The Macclesfield Accommodation Coach, every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday afternoon.
1860 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 212/1 Mr. Mitchell was a well-known coach proprietor, and the driver of the ‘Accommodation’ coach from Worthing to London.
1888 N.Y. Tribune 17 Mar. 1/5 It consisted, beside the engine, of a baggage car, an accommodation coach, and two sleepers.
1947 Los Angeles Times 25 Mar. 2/1 A Southern Pacific express and baggage train rammed into the side of a work train..hospitalizing a woman passenger riding in a rear accommodation coach.
2001 M. Gilchrist Good Journey (2002) 49 Nicholas..announced that the accommodation coach had arrived.
accommodation house n. a lodging house for travellers; (also) a brothel.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > lodging-place > temporary > for travellers, pilgrims, etc.
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vent1577
caravanserai1585
yam1587
serai1609
venta1610
post-house1611
xenodochium1612
imaret1613
seraglio1617
rancho1648
hospitium1650
watering-house1664
choultry1698
accommodation house1787
stage-house1788
spital1794
stand1805
resthouse1807
hospice1818
resting1879
stopping house1883
truck stop1961
1787 [see Compounds 1].
1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang 2 Accommodation-house. The Reader had better consult ‘Fubbs’ than we explain the minute difference that exists between these and a ‘Dress-house’ or a ‘Bodikin’.
1857 H. W. Harper Lett. from N.Z. 1 Sept. (1914) 17 There I found what is known as an accommodation house.
1862 B. Hemyng in H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) Extra vol. 249/1 Those who gain their living by keeping accommodation houses,..are of course to be placed in the category of the people who are dependant on prostitutes.
1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 1 Nov. 21/3 An accommodation-house that has never received its due meed of notoriety.
1951 L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs vi. 149 On losing my bullocks I would go to the nearest accommodation house and stand occasional drinks to travellers.
2006 F. Zhao Maximize Business Profits through E-Partnerships v. 123 Room prices can then be updated by the accommodation house as they become available.
accommodation ladder n. Nautical a set of steps giving access from one deck to another, or used to board a ship.
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1744 J. Guthrie Ordinary of Newgate no. 2. 14/2 He was ordered to get the Accommodation Ladder out, and see the Viol all clear, for Heaving-in the best Bower Cable.
1839 G. W. M. Reynolds Pickwick Abroad i. 7 That faithful domestic descended the accommodation-ladder, and once more stood upon the deck of the vessel.
1847 B. Disraeli Tancred II. iv. xi. 314 From the door of the house were some temporary steps, like an accommodation ladder.
1947 A. Ransome Great Northern? ix. 113 John held the dinghy steady a few yards from the accommodation ladder.
2008 Argus Weekend (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 5 Oct. (News) 1 The ship was unable to launch her liberty boats after the swell snapped one of the ship's accommodation ladders.
accommodation land n. land adjoining a town or village that is let for cultivation or pasture, esp. of animals prior to slaughter.
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1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon iv. 102 Accommodation land, in the neighbourhood of trading, manufacturing, and market towns, not strictly applicable to the common purposes of farming, varies from 5l. to 8l. annual rent per acre.
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Aug. 11/1 A ‘town park’ was accommodation land, by means of which in the wretched villages, misnamed towns, scattered throughout Ireland, the hucksters..eked out a miserable business by growing potatoes or feeding stock for early slaughter.
1907 L. Jebb Small Holdings of Eng. vi. 219 The average value of the land is about £50 per acre,..and even more for ‘accommodation’ land in the near neighbourhood of market towns and villages.
1995 R. Perren Agric. in Depression 62 Some of those in occupations allied to farming had small amounts of land... This could include butchers and livestock dealers with accommodation land, and village shopkeepers and publicans with a smallholding.
accommodation note n. = accommodation bill n.
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1784 Whole Proc. King's Comm. Peace (City of London & County of Middlesex) No. 2. vi. 289/1 This note was a note drawn by you on your uncle... What you call an accommodation note?
1852 Hunt's Merchants' Mag. June 717 It is no defense that the holder knew the note was an accommodation note, if he took it for value, bona fide, before it became due.
1981 J. D. Haeger Investm. Frontier vii. 142 The company rarely called in its accommodation notes or outstanding balances for fear of alienating good customers.
accommodation paddock n. Australian and New Zealand a paddock used to hold animals in transit and provide pasture for them.
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1843 Colonial Observer (Sydney) 22 Feb. 838/1 Four miles from town, near the accommodation paddocks.
1860 E. Macpherson My Experiences in Austral. 102 To pitch our tent in an accommodation paddock, some 2 or 3 miles out of town.
1947 C. B. Brereton No Roll of Drums xvi. 143 They [sc. cattle] look travel tired; perhaps they have been driven too hard. I know your last accommodation paddock is eaten out!
1996 Sunday Tasmanian (Nexis) 19 May Some sheep are trucked up to the highlands or transported to the accommodation paddock.
accommodation paper n. documents serving as accommodation bills.
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1781 R. Price Let. 6 Aug. in Corr. (1991) II. 109 He has been lately supporting himself by what they call accommodation paper.
1829 A. Sherwood Gazetteer Georgia (ed. 2) 75 The Bank to collect the debts due the State, and debtors to be allowed to renew their notes..as persons borrowing money on accommodation paper.
1899 Pacific Reporter 55 951/1 A transferee of accommodation paper as collateral security for an antecedent debt is a holder for value.
1907 Northeastern Reporter 80 1085/1 No one can ever have a legal right to require another to execute accommodation paper in his favor.
2007 A. D. Kessler Revol. in Commerce v. 219 Accommodation paper..was thought to lack a solid commercial foundation and thus to be prone to being dishonored.
accommodation road n. a road constructed to give access to a property or piece of land not adjoining a public road; a service road.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > for access to land
occupation road1799
accommodation road1823
1823 Times 26 Apr. 2/3 Accommodation Roads, 20 feet wide.
1881 M. E. Braddon Asphodel I. 289 Goring Lane was an accommodation road, leading down from the home farm to the meadows.
1909 R. Kipling Actions & Reactions 36 No better than accommodation-roads.
2010 Donegal Democrat (Nexis) 18 Feb. Some accommodation roads were in a bad state following the recent harsh weather.
accommodation stage n. U.S. (now historical) a stagecoach which stops at all (or nearly all) the stages on its route.
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1811 Columbian Centinel (Boston) 25 Sept. 3/1 Accomodation stage.
1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. iii. 7 So remarkably accommodating were the old-fashioned accommodation stages and stage owners!
1913 Proc. Pennsylvania-German Soc. 22 37 The other event was the arrival or departure of the accommodation stage.
accommodation theory n. Linguistics and Sociology (more fully communication accommodation theory, speech accommodation theory) a theoretical approach which analyses the manner in which people adjust their style of speech or interaction in accordance with or in response to that of their interlocutors; cf. sense 1g.
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1973 H. Giles et al. in Lang. in Society 2 177 A theoretical framework for these results and other forms of interpersonal accommodation was suggested. (Bilingualism; social interaction; accommodation theory.)
1993 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 98 1215 The investigators employ Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) as a heuristic frame for their research.
1994 Lang. in Society 23 184 Work in accommodation theory suggests that a complex interplay of linguistic and psychological factors will establish the predisposition to understand.
2007 Mod. Lang. Jrnl. 91 841/2 According to speech accommodation theory, both convergence and divergence constitute strategies of identification with the communicative norms of some reference group.
accommodation train n. U.S. (now historical) a train which stops at all (or nearly all) the stations on its route.
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1838 Boston Almanac 49 Depots on the Providence Rail Road. Accommodation Train.
1860 O. W. Holmes Professor at Breakfast-table iii. 80 Accomodation train. A good many stops, but will get to the station by and by.
1915 Southern Reporter 801 I was at the depot when the accommodation train came in.
1999 R. B. Heilman Professor & Profession i. iv. 65 We might have to change or choose to change trains... If one chose, it was to leave a ‘local’ or ‘accommodation’ train and take instead and ‘express’ or ‘limited’.
accommodation unit n. a single place of residence, esp. considered in relation to the provision of housing for a particular population, or for the purposes of official enumeration.In quot. 1922 with reference to accommodation for animals.
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1922 W. A. Foster & D. G. Carter Farm Buildings xxxiii. 327 Estimating by accommodation units.
1946 Billboard 25 May 106/2 City of Edmonton's (Alberta) five-month lease on three emergency accommodation units at the exhibition grounds which formerly housed 24 families expired recently.
1950 D. Maxwell Fyfe in Hansard Commons 5th Ser. 472 853 One million ‘accommodation units’ have been built since the war.
1951 Evening Standard 17 Aug. 4/1 The Ministry of Health's classic ‘accommodation unit’, which Mr. Churchill killed stone-dead by singing the phrase to the tune of Home, Sweet Home.
2002 Offshore (Nexis) July 79 The longer lifetimes of oilfield accommodation units demand tighter construction controls and the best materials.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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