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noun

accommodation

CEFR B2

making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances

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

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