# accommodate

Pronunciation: say "uh-KOM-uh-dayt" US /əˈkɑməˌdeɪt/, UK /əˈkɒməˌdeɪt/, AUS /əˈkɔməˌdæɪt/

## Verb

1. To provide housing or lodging for one or more people.
   - Simple: To give someone a place to live or stay.
   - _The new dormitory will accommodate three hundred students._
   - _Host families accommodated the exchange students for the summer._
2. To provide enough space to hold a number of people or things.
   - Simple: To have enough space to hold people or things.
   - _The stadium can accommodate eighty thousand spectators._
   - _The venue easily accommodated the entire conference._
3. To have space for and hold something comfortably.
   - Simple: To hold something with enough room to be comfortable.
   - _The new car accommodates five adults without anyone feeling cramped._
   - _Can this table accommodate all our guests?_
4. To provide someone with something they want, need, or find convenient.
   - Simple: To give people what they need or want.
   - _The supplier was happy to accommodate us with extra materials._
   - _Local businesses accommodated travelers with food and supplies during the storm._
5. To do a favor or service for someone; to oblige them.
   - Simple: To help someone by doing what they ask.
   - _The waiter happily accommodated our unusual request._
   - _If you can accommodate me just this once, I'd be grateful._
6. To take something into consideration and allow for it.
   - Simple: To take something into account and make room for it.
   - _The design accommodates future expansion of the building._
   - _Good policies accommodate the needs of people with disabilities._
7. To make something fit or suitable; to adapt it to a purpose or condition.
   - Simple: To change something so it fits or works well with another thing.
   - _The architect accommodated the design to the steep hillside._
   - _Writers must accommodate their language to their audience._
8. To bring people or views into agreement; to reconcile differences.
   - Simple: To help two sides settle their differences and agree.
   - _The new agreement accommodated the interests of workers and owners alike._
   - _Diplomats struggled to accommodate the opposing demands._
9. To apply or fit something by analogy, as adapting a teaching to particular circumstances or a statement to the facts.
   - Simple: To apply a saying or teaching to a situation it seems to match.
   - _Commentators accommodated the prophecy to events of their own day._
   - _The lecturer tried to accommodate the theory to the experimental results._
10. To change the focal length of the eye's lens in order to focus on objects at different distances.
   - Simple: To change the shape of the eye's lens so you can focus on near or far things.
   - _The lens of the eye accommodates by changing its curvature._
   - _Healthy eyes accommodate quickly when shifting focus from far to near._

## Verb

11. To adapt oneself; to become conformable or adjusted to circumstances. *(rare)*
   - Simple: To change yourself so you fit in with new conditions.
   - _Immigrants often accommodate to local customs within a generation._
   - _The body gradually accommodated to the high altitude._

## Adjective

12. Suitable and fit; well adapted to a particular purpose or end. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Well suited or fitted to a purpose.
   - _They judged the plan accommodate to the needs of the colony._
   - _He provided means accommodate to so great a design._

## Origin

First used in the 1530s, borrowed from Latin accommodātus, the past participle of accommodō. This came from ad- ("to, towards") plus commodō ("to make fit, to lend"), which traces back to modus ("measure, proportion, limit").

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