accommodationaladj.
/əˌkɒməˈdeɪʃn̩(ə)l/, U.S. /əˌkɑməˈdeɪʃ(ə)nəl/ 1. Of, relating to, or providing acceptable accommodation.
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1829 Virginia Lit. Museum 16 Dec. 418/2 A short time ago, we saw a tavern, recommended in a printed handbill as the most accommodational on the road.
1875 Poor Law Mag. 3 147 The word ‘efficient’, as applied to a school, cannot be limited to mere structural or accommodational efficiency, such as stability of building, capacity to accommodate, draining or ventilation.
1967 Listener 9 Nov. 615/1 This had obvious sexual innuendos, but it was answered by the Moscow girls in straight terms of times and accommodational organisation.
2008 R. Lemmens in M. P. Peterson Internat. Perspectives on Maps & Internet xxiv. 385 Not every building with an accommodational function is a hotel.
2. Involving or tending to conciliation. Cf. accommodating adj.
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society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > bringing about concord or peace > [adjective] > appeasing or propitiatory
propitiatory1536
conciliatory1576
placatorya1640
conciliating1661
mollifying1713
disarminga1718
conciliative1819
anti-inflammatory1842
propitiative1853
propitial1863
placating1873
conciliant1882
placative1903
accommodational1907
1907 C. D. Hartranft Study Earliest Lett. C. S. von Ossig iv. 71 The moderate and accommodational policy of Bishop Jacob von Salza.
1970 K. Millett Sexual Politics ii. 57 Both groups are forced to the same accommodational tactics: an ingratiating or supplicatory manner invented to please.
1990 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 18 Feb. Should our strategy for the next decade remain accommodational or, bearing in mind the changed social picture, is our task today perhaps rejectional?
2001 D. McGhee Homosexuality, Law & Resistance 175 This is not to advocate that all queer politics should be accommodational.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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