- Accommodation coach
- Accommodation Ac*com`mo*da"tion, n. [L. accommodatio, fr.
accommodare: cf. F. accommodation.]
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1. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being
fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by
to. ``The organization of the body with accommodation to
its functions.'' --Sir M. Hale.
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2. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness. [1913 Webster]
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. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
4. An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement. ``To come to terms of accommodation.'' --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
5. The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended. [1913 Webster]
Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations. --Paley. [1913 Webster]
6. (Com.) (a) A loan of money. (b) An accommodation bill or note. [1913 Webster]
{Accommodation bill}, or {note} (Com.), 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} (Naut.), a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.