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accommodate

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[ UK /ɐkˈɒmədˌe‍ɪt/ ]
[ US /əˈkɑməˌdeɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. be agreeable or acceptable to
    This suits my needs
  2. provide a service or favor for someone
    We had to oblige him
  3. provide with something desired or needed
    Can you accommodate me with a rental car?
  4. have room for; hold without crowding
    The auditorium can't hold more than 500 people
    This hotel can accommodate 250 guests
    The theater admits 300 people
  5. make (one thing) compatible with (another)
    The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories
  6. provide housing for
    We are lodging three foreign students this semester
  7. make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
    Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country
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How To Use accommodate In A Sentence

  • Life can not fade , the multiple spot color can't accommodate oneself to wonderful just now best,alive.
  • Thrice a day, the performers have been taking to the stage under the massive fireproof tents, which can accommodate up to 2,500 viewers.
  • Caltrain contracts with Amtrak to operate the commuter rail line, which accommodates 26, 000 daily riders.
  • The trail will accommodate five core activities: walking, cycling, horseback riding, cross-country skiing, and snowmobiling (where possible or desired).
  • This soft retained austenite can accommodate impact stresses better than the harder constituents.
  • The chimney, usually of lath and plaster, ending overhead in a cone and funnel for the smoke, was so roomy in old cottages as to accommodate almost the whole family sitting around the fire of logs piled in the reredosse in the middle, and there they carried on their winter's work. The Life of Thomas Telford
  • He bought a huge house to accommodate his library.
  • Ring roll, earring fasteners and pouches accommodate all kinds of jewelry.
  • He is so eager to accommodate his supporters and contributors that there seems to be very little that he is not willing to do for them at the expense of the public interest.
  • The new policies fail to accommodate the disabled.
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