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- Dictionaryaccommodate/əˈkɒmədeɪt/
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- 1. (of a building or other area) provide lodging or sufficient space for: "the cottages accommodate up to six people" Similar
- 2. fit in with the wishes or needs of: "any language must accommodate new concepts" Similar Opposite
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verb. /əˈkɒmədeɪt/ /əˈkɑːmədeɪt/ Verb Forms. [transitive] accommodate somebody to provide somebody with a room or place to sleep, live or sit. The hotel can accommodate up to 500 guests. The aircraft is capable of accommodating 28 passengers. Oxford Collocations Dictionary. Want to learn more?
ACCOMMODATE definition: 1. to provide with a place to live or to be stored in: 2. to give what is needed to someone: 3…. Learn more.
If a building or space can accommodate someone or something, it has enough room for them. The school was not big enough to accommodate all the children. American English : accommodate / əˈkɒmədeɪt /
Whether it refers to changing something to suit someone's wishes or providing someone with something he needs, accommodate typically involves making something fit. You might change your lunch plans, for example, to accommodate your best friend's schedule. Accommodate can also refer to providing housing or having enough space for something. You ...
to change yourself or your behavior to suit another person or new conditions: Some find it hard to accommodate themselves to the new working conditions. She was desperately trying to accommodate herself to her new living arrangements. At that point, I had not accommodated myself to the life of a fisherman.
1. : to provide with something desired, needed, or suited. I needed money, and they accommodated me with a loan. 2. a. : to make room for. rebuilt the ship to accommodate the bigger containers. b. : to hold without crowding or inconvenience. a hotel that can accommodate about 100 people. 3. : to bring into agreement or concord : reconcile.
If a building or space can accommodate someone or something, it has enough room for them. The school was not big enough to accommodate all the children. American English : accommodate / əˈkɒmədeɪt /
1. If a building or space can accommodate someone or something, it has enough room for them. [...] 2. To accommodate someone means to provide them with a place to live or stay. [...] 3. If something is planned or changed to accommodate a particular situation, it is planned or changed so that it takes this situation into account. [formal] [...] More
accommodate. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English ac‧com‧mo‧date /əˈkɒmədeɪt $ əˈkɑː-/ AWL verb 1 [ transitive] if a room, building etc can accommodate a particular number of people or things, it has enough space for them He bought a huge house to accommodate his library.
1. To adapt oneself; become adjusted: It is never easy to accommodate to social change. 2. Physiology To become adjusted, as the eye to focusing on objects at a distance. [Latin accommodāre, accommodāt-, to fit : ad-, ad- + commodus, suitable; see commodious .] ac·com′mo·da′tive adj. ac·com′mo·da′tor n.
