Lodging
Lodging refers to the renting of a short-term dwelling. People who travel and stay away from home for more than a day need lodging for sleep, rest, food, safety, shelter from cold temperatures or rain, storage of luggage and access to common household functions. Lodging is a form of the access economy.
Lodging is done in a hotel, motel, hostel, inn or hostal, a private home (commercial, i.e. a bed and breakfast, a guest house, a vacation rental, or non-commercially, with members of hospitality services or in the home of friends), in a tent, caravan/campervan (often on a campsite). Lodgings may be self-catering, whereby no food is provided, but cooking facilities are available.
Lodging is offered by an owner of real property or a leasehold estate, including the hotel industry, hospitality industry, real estate investment trusts, and owner-occupancy houses.
Lodging can be facilitated by an intermediary such as a travel website.
Airbnb is the largest facilitator of lodging.
Accommodation (noun)
Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.
Accommodation (noun)
Adaptation or adjustment.
Accommodation (noun)
The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.
Accommodation (noun)
A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.
Accommodation (noun)
The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.
Accommodation (noun)
Adaptation or adjustment.
Accommodation (noun)
The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.
Accommodation (noun)
Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
Accommodation (noun)
Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.
Accommodation (noun)
The application of a writer’s language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
Accommodation (noun)
A loan of money.
Accommodation (noun)
An accommodation bill or note.
Accommodation (noun)
An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.
Accommodation (noun)
The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.
Accommodation (noun)
Modifications to make one’s way of speaking similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse.
Lodging (noun)
A place to live or lodge.
Lodging (noun)
Sleeping accommodation.
Lodging (noun)
Furnished rooms in a house rented as accommodation.
Lodging (noun)
The condition of a plant, especially a cereal, that has been flattened in the field or damaged so that it cannot stand upright, as by weather conditions or because the stem is not strong enough to support the plant.
Lodging (verb)
present participle of lodge
Accommodation (noun)
a room, group of rooms, or building in which someone may live or stay
“they were living in temporary accommodation”
Accommodation (noun)
lodgings, sometimes also including board
“the company offers a number of guest house accommodations in Oberammergau”
Accommodation (noun)
the available space for occupants in a building, vehicle, or vessel
“there was lifeboat accommodation for 1,178 people”
Accommodation (noun)
the provision of a room or lodgings
“the building is used exclusively for the accommodation of guests”
Accommodation (noun)
a convenient arrangement; a settlement or compromise
“the prime minister was seeking an accommodation with Labour”
Accommodation (noun)
the process of adapting or adjusting to someone or something
“accommodation to a separate political entity was not possible”
Accommodation (noun)
the automatic adjustment of the focus of the eye by flattening or thickening of the lens
“the power of accommodation to near objects”
Lodging (noun)
temporary accommodation
“a fee for board and lodging”
Lodging (noun)
a room or rooms rented out to someone, usually in the same residence as the owner
“he was looking for lodgings and a job”