accommodation

ACCOMMODA'TION, noun 1. Fitness; adaptation; followed by to. The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions. 2. Adjustment of differences; reconciliation; as of parties in dispute. 3. Provision of conveniences. 4. In plural; conveniences; things furnished for use; chiefly applied to lodgings. 5. In mercantile language, accommodation is used for a loan of money; which is often a great convenience. An accommodation note, in the language of bank directors, is one drawn and offered for discount, for the purpose of borrowing its amount, in opposition to a note, which the owner has received in payment for goods. In England, accommodation bill, is one given instead of a loan of money. 6. It is also used of a note lent merely to accommodate the borrower. 7. In theology, accommodation is the application of one thing to another by analogy, as of the words of a prophecy to a future event. Many of those quotations were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations. 8. In marine language, an accommodation ladder is a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway.