accommodate vs billet

accommodate

verb
  • To provide housing for. 

  • To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted. 

  • To change focal length in order to focus at a different distance. 

  • To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt. 

  • To give consideration to; to allow for. 

  • To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient. 

  • To contain comfortably; to have space for. 

  • To provide sufficient space for 

  • To do a favor or service for; to oblige. 

  • To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile. 

  • To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc. 

billet

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. 

noun
  • 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. 

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

  • A place where a soldier is assigned to lodge. 

  • A semi-finished length of metal. 

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