accommodation

In a sentence

Six example sentences with accommodation, each labelled with its topic.

• The two firms reached an accommodation over the shared warehouse rather than spending another year in arbitration.

  Business

• The eye makes a rapid accommodation when you look up from a page, which slows noticeably after age forty.

  Medicine

• The coalition survived on an accommodation between two parties that agreed on almost nothing except the transport budget.

  Politics

• The statute requires a reasonable accommodation, such as moving a desk closer to the door, before an employer may refuse.

  Law

• Piaget called it accommodation when a child who calls every animal a dog reshapes the idea to fit a cat.

  Psychology

• The 1801 concordat was an accommodation between Napoleon and the papacy, each side yielding something to reopen the churches.

  History

Found in these word lists

Found in 3 published word listsAuthoritative

• Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)
• New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)
• Science Vocabulary List

Each source is a published word list that contains accommodation. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

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