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accommodation
Noun
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(usually accommodations in American English) Accommodation is a place to stay or live.
The hotel provides high quality accommodation, mostly for foreign visitors.
After long years of living in rented accommodations, Jack could finally afford to buy a house.
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Accommodation is the process or result of changing something to fit a particular need or situation.
During the 1990s Iran tried twice to reach an accommodation with its long time rival.
contract
Noun
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A contract is a legal agreement to trade goods, services and/or property. It's usually written down.
If you would just sign this contract, the car will be yours.
In Japan, most worker’s employment contracts last until the age of sixty.
My father’s employment contract is for forty years.
You must look over the contract before you sign it.
contract
Verb
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If something contracts, it gets smaller.
As the wood dries out, it contracts.
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If you contract someone to do a job, you enter into a contract with them.
We've contracted a cleaning company to take care of the office.
When there's too much work, there are a number of small firms to which we will contract it out.
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If you contract a disease, you become sick with it.
It's hard to understand why people risk contracting sexually transmitted diseases.
He contracted the flu.