accommodate
Other forms: accommodated; accommodating; accommodates
If you accommodate, you are making an adjustment to suit a particular purpose. If you accommodate your brother's demand for the attic room, then you give in and let him take over that space.
Accommodate entered English in the mid-16th century from the Latin word accommodat-, meaning "made fitting." 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 might need to open up the extra bedroom to accommodate your out-of-town guests.
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have room for; hold without crowding
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provide with something desired or needed
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provide a service or favor for someone
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provide housing for
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make (one thing) compatible with (another)“The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories”
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synonyms:
conciliate, reconcile
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make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
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synonyms:
adapt
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adjust
make correspondent or conformable
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gear, pitch
set the level or character of
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fit
insert or adjust several objects or people
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anglicise, anglicize
make English in appearance
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shoehorn
fit for a specific purpose even when not well suited
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orient, tailor
adjust to a specific need or market
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domesticate, tame
make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
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cultivate, domesticate, naturalise, naturalize, tame
adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
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Christianise, Christianize
adapt in the name of Christianity
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naturalise, naturalize
adopt to another place
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electrify, wire
equip for use with electricity
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transcribe
rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended
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repurpose
adapt for a new use or format
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popularise, popularize
make understandable to the general public
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be agreeable or acceptable to
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type of:
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conform to, fit, meet
satisfy a condition or restriction
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conform to, fit, meet
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Vocabulary lists containing accommodate
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