accommodate

ac·com·mo·date

Use accommodate in a sentence

His friends have accommodated him by letting him sleep here.

verb

The definition of accommodate is to provide a place to stay.
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.
An example of accommodate would be a teacher changing her teaching methods to address the changing needs of her students.
Accommodate is defined as to do something that someone else asks of you or wants from you.
An example of accommodate would be giving someone a ride.

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accommodate

transitive verb

-·dat·ed, -·dat·ing

to make fit; adjust; adapt: to accommodate oneself to changes
to reconcile (differences)
to provide (someone) with something needed or desired
to do a service or favor for
to have space for: a table to accommodate six diners
to provide lodging for

Origin of accommodate

from Classical Latin accommodatus, past participle of accommodare from ad-, to + commodare, to fit from commodus: see commode

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

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accommodate

verb

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

verb

transitive

a. To have enough space for: a parking lot big enough to accommodate buses. See Synonyms at contain.
b. To provide lodging for: We looked for a hotel to accommodate the extra guests.
To take into consideration or make adjustments for; allow for: an economic proposal that accommodates the interests of senior citizens.
a. To do a favor or service for; oblige. See Synonyms at oblige.
b. To provide for; supply with something needed: accommodated the expedition with supplies.
To make suitable; adapt or adjust: accommodated herself to her new surroundings. See Synonyms at adapt.

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 of accommodate

Latin accommodāre accommodāt- to fit ad- ad- commodus suitable ; see commodious .

Related Forms:

ac·com′mo·da′tive
adjective

ac·com′mo·da′tor
noun

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Verb

(third-person singular simple present accommodates, present participle accommodating, simple past and past participle accommodated)

(often reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.
They accommodate their counsels to his inclination. -Joseph Addison
To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.
To provide housing for; to furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.
To do a favor or service for; to oblige;
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.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.
To give consideration to; to allow for.
To contain comfortably; to have space for.
(intransitive, rare) To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.

Adjective

(archaic) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end. - John Tillotson

Origin

1530s, from Latin accomodātus, perfect passive participle of accomodō; ad + commodō (“make fit, help”); com + modus (“measure, proportion”) (English mode).

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