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Definition of Accommodators
1. accommodator [n] - See also: accommodator
Lexicographical Neighbors of Accommodators
Literary usage of Accommodators
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of Effective Online Teaching by Nicole A. Buzzetto-More, ed., Nicole Antoinette Buzzetto-More, Informing Science Institute (2007)
"Second, students classified as the least common learning styles, ie diverg- ers
and accommodators, dropped out in higher numbers. Terrell (2002) tracked 159 ..."
2. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1839)
"Accommodators. Novel as it is, as a substitute to the long-winded and many-worded
appellation — the person by whom accommodation is afforded to another ..."
3. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"Accommodators (thieves), chiefly ex-police constables who negotiate a compounding
of felonies and other crimes by bribing witnesses and prosecutors. ..."
4. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1767)
"On the contrary, from what hath been here faid, it evidently appears, that the
opinion of the accommodators, ..."
5. The Works of John Owen by John Owen (1826)
"... than was before between the extremes (yea, when things before were in some
good measure allayed), the accommodators themselves, through an ambitious ..."
6. The Standard Index of Short Stories, 1900-1914 by Francis James Hannigan (1918)
"A. Morgan. LHJ 30:22 Ap '13 Thanet. Octave, pseud. (Alice French), 1850- Accommodators.
Delin 70:749 N '07 Angel of his youth. Scrib 36:750 D '04 Apparition ..."
7. A Practical Treatise on the Law of Principal and Surety: Particularly with by William Theobald (1832)
"Indeed, in Deering (the other accommodators), must v. Winchelsea, one of the few
cases pay more than ten shillings before in which the sum decreed for con- ..."
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