# accommodating

Pronunciation: US say "uh-KAH-muh-day-ting" /əˈkɑ.məˌdeɪ.tɪŋ/; UK say "uh-KOM-uh-day-ting" /əˈkɒm.əˌdeɪ.tɪŋ/

## Adjective

1. Willing to do what others want; helpful and obliging.
   - Simple: Willing to help and easy to get along with.
   - _Her manager was remarkably accommodating about the change in working hours._
   - _The committee took an accommodating stance toward late submissions this term._
3. Easily swayed or led, with no firm principles and open to corruption.
   - Simple: Too easily influenced or led, even into doing wrong.
   - _The minister grew ever more accommodating as the bribes from contractors increased._
   - _His conscience was conveniently accommodating whenever a profitable deal demanded it._

## Verb

2. Present participle and gerund of accommodate. — present participle and gerund of accommodate
   - Simple: Present participle and gerund of accommodate. Use this form for an action happening now or as the name of the action.
   - _The airline is accommodating passengers whose flights were canceled overnight._
   - _Accommodating so many requests at once strained the small support team._

## Origin

Formed from the verb "accommodate" with the suffix "-ing".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/accommodating (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).