accommodation
Noun
Meaning
The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to.
Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
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.
An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement.
The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
A loan of money.
An accommodation bill or note.
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Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
Every accommodation of Muslim demands leads to a sense of euphoria and a conviction that Allah is on their side. They see every act of appeasement as an invitation to make fresh demands.
I know that the history of man is not his technical triumphs, his kills, his victories. It is a composite, a mosaic of a trillion pieces, the account of each man's accommodation with his conscience. This is the true history of the race.
The life of man is a journey a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.
Harmony creates accommodation.
You may laugh at a friend's roof; don't laugh at his sleeping accommodation.