accommodate

Accommodate is defined as to do something that someone else asks of you or wants from you.

(verb)

An example of accommodate would be giving someone a ride.

The definition of accommodate is to provide a place to stay.

(verb)

An example of accommodate is letting your friend sleep on your couch when he comes to town.

Accommodate means to adjust to something or someone else's needs.

(verb)

An example of accommodate would be a teacher changing her teaching methods to address the changing needs of her students.

See accommodate in Webster's New World College Dictionary

Origin: < L accommodatus, pp. of accommodare < ad-, to + commodare, to fit < commodus: see commode

intransitive verb

to become adjusted, as the lens of the eye in focusing on objects at various distances

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See accommodate in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb ac·com·mo·dat·ed, ac·com·mo·dat·ing, ac·com·mo·dates

verb, transitive

To do a favor or service for; oblige. See Synonyms at oblige.
To provide for; supply with.
To hold comfortably without crowding. See Synonyms at contain.
To make suitable; adapt. See Synonyms at adapt.
To allow for; consider: an economic proposal that accommodates the interests of senior citizens.
To settle; reconcile.

verb, intransitive

To adapt oneself; become adjusted: It is never easy to accommodate to social change.
Physiology To become adjusted, as the eye to focusing on objects at a distance.

Origin:

Origin: Latin accomodāre, accomodāt-, to fit

Origin: : ad-, ad-

Origin: + commodus, suitable; see commodious

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