accommodate

Definition of accommodate in English English dictionary: To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings; Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end. - John Tillotson; To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted. - Boyle; 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.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events; To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc; To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances
They accommodate their counsels to his inclination. -Joseph Addison.; to furnish something as a kindness or favor; {v} to suit, fit, apply, reconcile; {a} suited, fitted, adapted; akomode, loje; provide a service or favor for someone; "We had to oblige him"; provide housing for; "We are lodging three foreign students this semester"; make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose; "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country"; be agreeable or acceptable to; "This suits my needs"; To furnish with something desired, needed or suited; also, to use an alternative means [Click Here to Return to List]; when people change how they think or what they do when they have a problem that they are unable to solve in a more desired way; If something is planned or changed to accommodate a particular situation, it is planned or changed so that it takes this situation into account. The roads are built to accommodate gradual temperature changes; make compatible with; "The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories"; make compatible with; "The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories" provide with something desired or needed; "Can you accommodate me with a rental car?" have room for; hold without crowding; "This hotel can accommodate 250 guests"; "The theater admits 300 people"; "The auditorium can't hold more than 500 people; To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted; {f} host guests; provide lodging; adapt oneself; give, bestow; (rare) To adapt ones self; to be conformable or adapted; have room for; hold without crowding; "This hotel can accommodate 250 guests"; "The theater admits 300 people"; "The auditorium can't hold more than 500 people; If a building or space can accommodate someone or something, it has enough room for them. The school in Poldown was not big enough to accommodate all the children; To accommodate someone means to provide them with a place to live or stay. a hotel built to accommodate guests for the wedding of King Alfonso Students are accommodated in homes nearby; as, to accommodate prophecy to events; Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end; 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; If you do something to accommodate someone, you do it with the main purpose of pleasing or satisfying them. He has never put an arm around his wife to accommodate photographers = oblige; provide with something desired or needed; "Can you accommodate me with a rental car?"
accommodate prior booking: honor reservations which were made earlier
accommodating: Present participle of accommodate
accommodating: Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement
accommodated: {a} suited, supplied, made up
Accommodating: A win-lose conflict management strategy exemplified by trying to satisfy the other's concerns
Accommodating: A conflict management style in which one cooperates with the other party while not asserting one's own interest (14)
Accommodating: A conflict management style in which one cooperates with the other party while not asserting one's own interest
Accommodating: obliging; willing to do favors; "made a special effort to be accommodating"
accommodated: past of accommodate
accommodates: third-person singular of accommodate
accommodating: helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation; "the warden was always accommodating in allowing visitors in"; "made a special effort to be accommodating"
accommodating: obliging; willing to do favors; "made a special effort to be accommodating
accommodating: {s} helping; pleasant, easygoing; polite; flexible
accommodating: approval If you describe someone as accommodating, you like the fact that they are willing to do things in order to please you or help you. = obliging. helpful and willing to do what someone else wants
accommodatingly: flexibly, in an adaptable manner
accommodatingly: In an accommodating manner
accommodative: Supplying with or obliging; accommodating
accommodative: helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation; "the warden was always accommodating in allowing visitors in"; "made a special effort to be accommodating"
accommodative: willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement
accommodative: tending to reconcile or accommodate; bringing into harmony
accommodative: {s} adaptable, willing to make changes, obliging
accommodative: tending to reconcile or accommodate; bringing into harmony willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement

accommodate

Hyphenation

ac·com·mo·date

Turkish pronunciation

ıkämıdeyt

Synonyms

board, contain, domicile, entertain, furnish, harbor, hold, house, put up, quarter, receive, rent, shelter, supply, take in

Antonyms

discommodate, turn away, turn out, disarrange, unsuit, bar, block, frustrate, hinder, impede, limit, obstruct, prevent, stop

Pronunciation

/əˈkäməˌdāt/ /əˈkɑːməˌdeɪt/

Etymology

[ &-'kä-m&-"dAt ] (verb.) 1550. From Latin accomodātus, perfect passive participle of accomodō; ad + commodō (“make fit, help”); com + modus (“measure, proportion”). See mode.