Accommodation

Ac·com·mo·da·tion

Accommodation

n.
  1. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to.
  2. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
  3. 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. An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement.
  5. The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
    Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations.
    — Paley.
  6. A loan of money. (Com.)

Phrases & Compounds

Accommodation bill, [or] note
a bill of exchange which a person accepts, or a note which a person makes and delivers to another, not upon a consideration received, but for the purpose of raising money on credit.
Accommodation coach, [or] train
one running at moderate speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations.
Accommodation ladder
a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats.