accommodate

verb

(transitive) To provide housing for.

(transitive) To provide sufficient space for.

(transitive) To contain comfortably; to have space for.

(transitive) To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.

(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 do a favor or service for; to oblige.

(transitive) To give consideration to; to allow for.

(intransitive, of an eye) To change focal length in order to focus at a different distance.

(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.

(intransitive, rare) To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.

adjective

(obsolete) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.

Roots

modusmod- · Latin · measure, manner

Synonyms for accommodate

adaptv fitv obligev reconcilev suitn adjustv conformv lodgen holdv providev attunev arrangev

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Where does accommodate come from?

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