Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• ACCOMMODATION
  
  the lending of one person's good name or credit standing to a second person with no compensation in order that the second person may borrow money from a third person. Historically, accommodation meant the making of a loan by one person to a second person who lacks sufficient collateral but has the backing of a third person.
  
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