accommodation vs billet

accommodation

noun
  • Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc. 

  • The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part. 

  • The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment. 

  • The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object. 

  • Willingness to accommodate; obligingness. 

  • 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. 

  • A loan of money. 

  • A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need. 

  • An adaptation or method of interpretation which explains the special form in which the revelation is presented as unessential to its contents, or rather as often adopted by way of compromise with human ignorance or weakness. 

  • An accommodation bill or note. 

  • Modification(s) to make one's way of communicating similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse. 

  • The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended. 

  • Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise. 

billet

noun
  • Temporary lodgings in a private residence, such as is organised for members of a visiting sports team. 

  • A short cutting of sugar cane produced by a harvester or used for planting. 

  • A sealed ticket for a draw or lottery. 

  • An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood, either square or round. 

  • A loop that receives the end of a buckled strap. 

  • Berth; position. 

  • An allocated space or berth in a boat or ship. 

  • A short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood. 

  • A strap that enters a buckle. 

  • A short informal letter. 

  • A written order to quarter soldiers. 

  • A rectangle used as a charge on an escutcheon. 

  • A place where a soldier is assigned to lodge. 

  • A semi-finished length of metal. 

verb
  • To lodge, or be quartered, in a private house. 

  • To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge. 

  • To lodge soldiers, or guests, usually by order. 

How often have the words accommodation and billet occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )