EGAVE

accommodate

Academic Word List, sublist 9.

About 8.68 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
    to accommodate ourselves to circumstances
  2. verb To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.
    to accommodate differences
  3. verb To provide housing for.
    to accommodate an old friend for a week
  4. verb To provide sufficient space for.
  5. verb To contain comfortably; to have space for.
    This venue accommodates three hundred people.
  6. verb To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.
    to accommodate a friend with a loan
  7. verb To do a favor or service for; to oblige.
  8. verb 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 accommodate prophecy to events

Similar words

adapt fit admit reconcile conciliate oblige hold lodge suit adaptation

Often followed by

the a all them to themselves this their itself

Word family

accommodated accommodates accommodating accommodation accommodative accommodativeness accommodativenesses accommodator accommodators

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