definition of the word accommodate

Latin accommodatus, past participle of accommodare; ad + commodare to make fit, help; con- + modus measure, proportion. See mode

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to accommodate (third-person singular simple present accommodates, present participle accommodating, simple past and past participle accommodated)

1. (transitive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.

   They accomodate their counsels to his inclination. -Addison

2. (transitive) To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.
3. (transitive) To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.
4. (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.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.
5. (intransitive) (rare) To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted. - Boyle

• To suit; adapt; conform; adjust; arrange.

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