accommodate
Meaning
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- To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
- To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.
- To provide housing for.
- To provide sufficient space for
- To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.
- 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.
- To give consideration to; to allow for.
- To contain comfortably; to have space for.
- To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
- To change focal length in order to focus at a different distance.
Synonyms
yield
conciliate
become accustomed to
adapt oneself
adapt to
fit with
go backward
lend oneself
provide for
suit the convenience of
acclimatize to
supply accommodations
allot credits
abdicate
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/əˈkɒməˌdeɪt/
Etymology
1530s, from Latin accommodātus, perfect passive participle of accommodō; ad + commodō (“make fit, help”); com- + modus (“measure, proportion”) (English mode).
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