Definition of "accommodate"

accommodate

/əˈkɒməˌdeɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present accommodates, present participle accommodating, simple past and past participle accommodated
1. (transitive, often reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
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  IT is an old Obſervation, which has been made of Politicians who would rather ingratiate themſelves with their Sovereign, than promote his real Service, that they accommodate their Counſels to his Inclinations, and adviſe him to ſuch Actions only as his Heart is naturally ſet upon.
  1712 June 29 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “WEDNESDAY, June 18, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 475; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, page 15
2. (transitive) To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.
3. (transitive) To provide housing for.
4. To provide sufficient space for
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  My next stop is Oxford, which has also grown with the addition of new platforms to accommodate the Chiltern Railways service to London via Bicester - although, short sightedly, the planned electrification from Paddington was canned.
  2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, pages 67–68
5. (transitive) To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.
6. (transitive) To do a favor or service for; to oblige.
7. (transitive) 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.
8. (transitive) To give consideration to; to allow for.
9. (transitive) To contain comfortably; to have space for.
10. (intransitive, rare) To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
11. (intransitive, of an eye) To change focal length in order to focus at a different distance.
adjective
comparative more accommodate, superlative most accommodate
1. (obsolete) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.
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  God did not primarily intend to appoint this way of Worſhip, and to impoſe it upon them as that which was moſt proper and agreeable to him ; but that he condeſcended to it, as moſt accommodate to their preſent ſtate and inclination.
  a. 1671, John Tillotson, Sermons Preach’d Upon Several Occaſions, London: A.M., page 181

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