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ACCOMMODATION | meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary

accommodation noun (PLACE TO LIVE)

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• accommodationUK Our holiday accommodation was not up to standard.
• accommodationsUS How were the accommodations at the resort?
• place to stayIf you need a place to stay, I have a spare room.
• lodgingOur lodging on the estate wasn’t free: we had to help with household tasks in payment.
• lodgingsAfter work she returned to her lodgings on the outskirts of town.
• digsUK I had digs in Jesus Lane, not far from college.

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• accommodationUK Our holiday accommodation was not up to standard.
• accommodationsUS How were the accommodations at the resort?
• place to stayIf you need a place to stay, I have a spare room.
• lodgingOur lodging on the estate wasn’t free: we had to help with household tasks in payment.
• lodgingsAfter work she returned to her lodgings on the outskirts of town.
• digsUK I had digs in Jesus Lane, not far from college.

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accommodation noun (ARRANGEMENT)

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accommodation noun (OF EYE)

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accommodation | Business English

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Examples of accommodation

accommodation

The pupils were dilated and accommodation paralyzed with topical atropine. Different perceptions of land claims and differing patterns of land use prevented the possibility of mutual accommodation.

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A service provider might well have organised the information by provider, and judged residential care establishments as inappropriate to an accommodation guide. Elderly people subsisting on meagre incomes in council accommodation. Can deal with most transactions likely to arise whilst traveling, arranging travel or accommodation, or dealing with authorities during a foreign visit. The implicit scoping modification induced by binding operations prevents them from accommodation into the usual apparatus within free algebras (abstract syntax). Accommodation, assimilation and reciprocity are refrains heard throughout the edition. The work of accommodation agency services in some voluntary organisations, assisted by funding from government, provides the clearest example of market efficiency approaches. The septic fringe of the city, being inadequately administered, usually offers very poor accommodation, if any, to the newcomer. This scheme showed that rehabilitation of historic buildings could provide accommodation at affordable prices for the less affluent. Accommodation rooms were cleaned and disinfected one section at a time, and new guests were accommodated in the cleaned sections. These may include reanalysis of already existing devices, grammaticalization of a lexical item and also grammatical accommodation. They worked in isolation, with poor accommodation and rations, exposed to a range of diseases, and were relatively poorly paid. He was frustrated by the time and accommodation for music and in the end only taught a few lessons. This could be indicated by the often luxurious accommodation at the top end of the barracks.

Collocations with accommodation

accommodation

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appropriate accommodation

Concerns with accessing appropriate accommodation from the perspective of staff and older people are presented.

first-class accommodation

Until the last war, it was provided by a type of stock suitable for this, and which, incidentally, provided first-class accommodation.

luxury accommodation

With higher standards too, such as two-bedroom flats and the development of luxury accommodation, more elderly people may prefer this to remaining in their existing home.

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a period of time during which you do not use mobile phones, computers, etc., because you usually use these devices too much

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