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Accommodation ladder   /əkˌɑmədˈeɪʃən lˈædər/   Listen
noun
Accommodation  n.  
1.
The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; followed by to. "The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions."
2.
Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
3.
Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; often in the plural; as, the accommodations that is, lodgings and food at an inn.
4.
An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement. "To come to terms of accommodation."
5.
The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended. "Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations."
6.
(Com.)
(a)
A loan of money.
(b)
An accommodation bill or note.
Accommodation bill, or Accommodation note (Com.), 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 Accommodation train, one running at moderate speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations.
Accommodation ladder (Naut.), a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats.






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"Accommodation ladder" Quotes from Famous Books



... you. He wants an interview, I guess. He followed you last night from the capital by train. You want to watch out he don't catch you. His name is Jones." I promised to be on my guard against a man named Jones, and the consul escorted me to the ship. As he went down the accommodation ladder, I called over the rail: "In case they should declare war, cable to Curacoa and I'll come back. And don't cable anything indefinite, like 'Situation critical' or 'War imminent.' Understand? Cable me, 'Come back' ...
— Once Upon A Time • Richard Harding Davis

... calm under her lee, and, though the small boat was bobbing about, they got aboard. The oars were in place, and in another moment they had shoved off from the landing stage which formed the foot of the accommodation ladder. ...
— Tom Swift and his Submarine Boat - or, Under the Ocean for Sunken Treasure • Victor Appleton

... and in language neither courteous nor refined told us to haul the ship's yawl alongside and be lively about it. I instantly entered the boat from the taffrail by means of the painter; and in half a minute the boat was at the gangway, MANNED by a couple of BOYS, and Stetson rushed down the accommodation ladder, with a stout hickory stick in his hand, and without seating himself, seized the tiller, and with a tremendous oath, ordered us to ...
— Jack in the Forecastle • John Sherburne Sleeper

... fallen to me by the Captain's orders, and I clambered back, to find him and Mr. Rogers standing by the accommodation ladder on the port side, and in the act of stepping down into the dinghy. Indeed, Mr. Rogers had his foot on the ladder, and seemed to wait only while the Captain gave some instructions to Mr. Goodfellow, ...
— Poison Island • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)



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