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Accommodate

//əˈkɒməˌdeɪt// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end. obsolete

    "God did not primarily intend to appoint this way of Worſhip, and to impoſe it upon them as that which was moſt proper and agreeable to him ; but that he condeſcended to it, as moſt accommodate to their preſent ſtate and inclination."

Verb
  1. 1
    To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt. often, reflexive, transitive

    "to accommodate ourselves to circumstances"

  2. 2
    make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose wordnet
  3. 3
    To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile. transitive

    "to accommodate differences"

  4. 4
    make (one thing) compatible with (another) wordnet
  5. 5
    To provide housing for. transitive

    "to accommodate an old friend for a week"

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  1. 6
    provide a service or favor for someone wordnet
  2. 7
    To provide sufficient space for. transitive

    "My next stop is Oxford, which has also grown with the addition of new platforms to accommodate the Chiltern Railways service to London via Bicester - although, short sightedly, the planned electrification from Paddington was canned."

  3. 8
    provide with something desired or needed wordnet
  4. 9
    To contain comfortably; to have space for. transitive

    "This venue accommodates three hundred people."

  5. 10
    provide housing for wordnet
  6. 11
    To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient. transitive

    "to accommodate a friend with a loan"

  7. 12
    be agreeable or acceptable to wordnet
  8. 13
    To do a favor or service for; to oblige. transitive
  9. 14
    have room for; hold without crowding wordnet
  10. 15
    To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc. transitive

    "to accommodate prophecy to events"

  11. 16
    To give consideration to; to allow for. transitive
  12. 17
    To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted. intransitive, rare
  13. 18
    To change focal length in order to focus at a different distance. intransitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

1530s, borrowed from Latin accommodātus, perfect passive participle of accommodō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + commodō (“to provide, lend; to make fit, accommodate”), from con- + modus (“measure, proportion, limit”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix) (see English mode).

Etymology 2

1530s, borrowed from Latin accommodātus, perfect passive participle of accommodō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + commodō (“to provide, lend; to make fit, accommodate”), from con- + modus (“measure, proportion, limit”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix) (see English mode).

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