the act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need | termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities |
(physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the natural lens of the eye | the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies |
living quarters provided for public convenience | something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making |
in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality | a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it |
a settlement of differences | a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government |
making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances | a community of people smaller than a town |
| an area where a group of families live together |