Accommodation vs. Housing — What's the Difference?

A room, group of rooms, or building in which someone may live or stay

Housing, or more generally living spaces, refers to the construction and assigned usage of houses or buildings collectively, for the purpose of sheltering people — the planning or provision delivered by an authority, with related meanings. Ensuring that members of society have a home in which to live, whether this is a house, or some other kind of dwelling, lodging, or shelter, is a social issue.

A convenient arrangement; a settlement or compromise

Houses and flats considered collectively

The process of adapting or adjusting to someone or something

A rigid casing that encloses and protects a piece of moving or delicate equipment.

The act of accommodating or the state of being accommodated; adjustment.

A recess or groove cut in one piece of wood to allow another piece to be attached to it.

Something that meets a need; a convenience.

A cloth covering put on a horse for protection or ornament.

Room and board; lodgings.

Buildings or other shelters in which people live

A seat, compartment, or room on a public vehicle.

A place to live; a dwelling

Reconciliation or settlement of opposing views.

Provision of lodging or shelter

(Physiology) The automatic adjustment in the focal length of the lens of the eye to permit retinal focus of images of objects at varying distances.

A frame, bracket, or box for holding or protecting a mechanical part

A financial favor, such as a loan.

An enclosing frame in which a shaft revolves.

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

A hole, groove, or slot in a piece of wood into which another piece is inserted.

(physical) Adaptation or adjustment.

A niche for a statue.

The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.

The part of a mast that is below deck.

A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.

The part of a bowsprit that is inside the hull.

The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.

An ornamental or protective covering for a saddle.

The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.

Often housings Trappings for a horse.

(personal) Adaptation or adjustment.

A structure serving as a dwelling for one or more persons, especially for a family.

Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.

A household or family.

Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.

Something, such as a burrow or shell, that serves as a shelter or habitation for a wild animal.

(countable) The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.

A dwelling for a group of people, such as students or members of a religious community, who live together as a unit

A loan of money.

A building that functions as the primary shelter or location of something

An accommodation bill or note.

A building devoted to a particular activity

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

A facility, such as a theater or restaurant, that provides entertainment or food for the public

(theology) 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.

The seating area in such an establishment

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

The audience or patrons of such an establishment

Modification(s) to make one's way of communicating similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse.

A commercial firm

The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; - followed by to.

A publishing company

Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.

A gambling casino.

Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; - often in the plural; as, the accommodations - that is, lodgings and food - at an inn.

(Slang) A house of prostitution.

An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement.

A residential college within a university.

The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.

Often House A legislative or deliberative assembly.

A loan of money.

The hall or chamber in which such an assembly meets.

Making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances

A quorum of such an assembly.

A settlement of differences;

Often House A family line including ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble family

In the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality

One of the 12 parts into which the heavens are divided in astrology.

Living quarters provided for public convenience;

The sign of the zodiac indicating the seat or station of a planet in the heavens. Also called mansion.

The act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need

House music.

(physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the lens of the eye

To provide living quarters for; lodge

To shelter, keep, or store in a house or other structure

To fit (something) into a socket or mortise.

(Nautical) To secure or stow safely.

To reside; dwell.

To take shelter.

Present participle of house

(uncountable) The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.

(uncountable) Residences, collectively.

(countable) A mechanical component's container or covering.

A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.

An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness.

(architecture) The space taken out of one solid to admit the insertion of part of another, such as the end of one timber in the side of another.

A niche for a statue.

(nautical) That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.

(nautical) A houseline.

The act of putting or receiving under shelter; the state of dwelling in a habitation.

That which shelters or covers; houses, taken collectively.

The space taken out of one solid, to admit the insertion of part of another, as the end of one timber in the side of another.

A frame or support for holding something in place, such as a piece of machinery, journal boxes, etc.

That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.

A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.

An appendage to the hames or collar of a harness.

Housing structures collectively; structures in which people are housed

A protective cover designed to contain or support a mechanical component

Stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse