accommodate
IPA: ʌkˈɑmʌdeɪt
verb
- (transitive, often reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
- (transitive) To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.
- (transitive) To provide housing for.
- To provide sufficient space for
- (transitive) To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.
- (transitive) To do a favor or service for; to oblige.
- (transitive) 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 give consideration to; to allow for.
- (transitive) To contain comfortably; to have space for.
- (intransitive, rare) To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
- (intransitive, of an eye) To change focal length in order to focus at a different distance.
adjective
- (obsolete) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.
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Examples of "accommodate" in Sentences
- The house was expanded to accommodate the tavern.
- The very province we were jointly trying to accommodate is isolated yet again.
- Health Minister Alex Larsen said that tents were being readied for 400,000 people at mini-villages that will initially hold 20,000, and in the long term accommodate about one million.
- Larsen said tents were being readied for 400,000 quake victims at mini-villages outside the capital that will initially hold 20,000 people, and in the long term accommodate around one million.
- Health Minister Alex Larsen said tents were being readied for 400,000 quake victims at mini-villages outside the capital that will initially hold 20,000 people, and in the long term accommodate around one million.
- When a party of the Shays rebels came to the house of General Pomeroy, in Northampton, and asked if he could accommodate them, -- the old soldier, seeing the green sprigs in their hats, the badges of their treason, shouted to his son, "Fetch me my hanger, and I'll _accommodate_ the scoundrels!"