accomodate

Verb

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

1. (often, reflexive, transitive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
   • to accommodate ourselves to circumstances

   Synonyms:

   adapt, conform, adjust, arrange, suit

2. (transitive) To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.
   • to accommodate differences

   Synonyms:

   reconcile

3. (transitive) To provide housing for.
   • to accommodate an old friend for a week

   Synonyms:

   quarter

4. (transitive) To provide sufficient space for.
   • My next stop is Oxford, which has also grown with the addition of new platforms to accommodate the Chiltern Railways service to London via Bicester - although, short sightedly, the planned electrification from Paddington was canned.2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, pages 67–68
5. (transitive) To contain comfortably; to have space for.
   • This venue accommodates three hundred people.
6. (transitive) To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.
   • to accommodate a friend with a loan

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