单词 | accommodation unit |
释义 | > as lemmasaccommodation unit accommodation unit n. a single place of residence, esp. considered in relation to the provision of housing for a particular population, or for the purposes of official enumeration.In quot. 1922 with reference to accommodation for animals. ΚΠ 1922 W. A. Foster & D. G. Carter Farm Buildings xxxiii. 327 Estimating by accommodation units. 1946 Billboard 25 May 106/2 City of Edmonton's (Alberta) five-month lease on three emergency accommodation units at the exhibition grounds which formerly housed 24 families expired recently. 1950 D. Maxwell Fyfe in Hansard Commons 5th Ser. 472 853 One million ‘accommodation units’ have been built since the war. 1951 Evening Standard 17 Aug. 4/1 The Ministry of Health's classic ‘accommodation unit’, which Mr. Churchill killed stone-dead by singing the phrase to the tune of Home, Sweet Home. 2002 Offshore (Nexis) July 79 The longer lifetimes of oilfield accommodation units demand tighter construction controls and the best materials. < as lemmas |
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