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nonaccommodating en · ADJ

Etymology

From non- + accommodating.

Meanings

1. Unaccommodating.
   • The federal funds rate will rise, which is consistent with the horizontalist argument: the central bank will most likely adopt a nonaccommodating policy only when it wants to affect the rate of interest. 2015, Marc Lavoie, Louis-Philippe Rochon, Mario Seccareccia, Money and Macrodynamics:
   • The estimated effects of each proposal, assuming nonaccommodating monetary policy, are shown in Tables 10-18. 1978, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance, Revenue Act of 1978, page 874:
   • We rarely develop or maintain (voluntary) relationships with those who we feel are nonaccommodating, or those with whom we don't feel like we're on the same page. 2018, Jake Harwood, Jessica Gasiorek, Herbert D. Pierson, Language, Communication, and Intergroup Relations:
   • Meg dwells on the unreasonableness of her nonaccommodating stance and does not acknowledge that she has successfully looked out for her best interests. 2009, Lisa Capps, Elinor Ochs, Constructing Panic: The Discourse of Agoraphobia, page 99:
   • The logic is that sheltered unions will exploit their capacity to externalize the costs of militancy in a decentralized system unless they are deterred from doing so by a credible government commitment to a nonaccommodating policy rule. 1999, Torben Iversen, Contested Economic Institutions, page 111:

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