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Accommodation vs Reconciliation - What's the difference?

accommodation | reconciliation |

As nouns the difference between accommodation and reconciliation

is that accommodation is (senseid) lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc while reconciliation is reconciliation (process of matching and comparing figures from accounting records against those presented on a bank statement).

accommodation

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

  • (senseid) Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.
  • (label) Adaptation or adjustment.
  • # The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.
  • #* (rfdate), Sir (1609-1676)
  • The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions.
  • # A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.
  • #*
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10 , passage=Mr. Cooke had had a sloop?yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.}}
  • # The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.
  • # The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.
  • (label) Adaptation or adjustment.
  • # Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
  • # Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.
  • #* (rfdate), (1800-1859)
  • To come to terms of accommodation .
  • # (label) The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
  • #* (rfdate), (William Paley) (1743-1805)
  • Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations .
  • # A loan of money.
  • # An accommodation bill or note.
  • # An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.
  • The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.
  • Derived terms

    : The definitions should be entered into dedicated entries for the terms defined. * accommodation bill, or note, (Commerce): 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, (Nautical): a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats * holiday accommodation

    reconciliation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The reestablishment of friendly relations; conciliation or rapprochement.
  • He longed for reconciliation with his estranged father, but too many painful memories kept him from making contact again.
  • (theology) The end of estrangement between a human and God as a result of the process of atonement; more specifically,
  • :* A Roman Catholic sacrament involving contrition, confession, punishment and absolution; penance.
  • (accounting) Process of matching and comparing figures from accounting records against those presented on a bank statement.
  • Synonyms

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