accommodation vs down payment

accommodation

noun
  • An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted. 

  • 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. 

  • The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation. 

  • A loan of money. 

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

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

  • 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. 

down payment

noun
  • A payment representing a fraction of the price of something being purchased, made to secure the right to continue making payments towards that purchase. 

  • Any initial commitment signifying an intention to carry out a larger future commitment, even though no legal rights or obligations are secured. 

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