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accommodate English

Meaning accommodate meaning

What does accommodate mean?
Definitions in simple English

accommodate Verb

— If mathx/math accommodates mathy/math, mathx/math has or makes room for mathy/math. The platform didn't look nearly big enough to accommodate a ship the size of the Lady Luck The seats are designed to accommodate children weighing between 20 and 40 pounds. — If a place accommodates people, they stay, work, or live there. The school residence currently accommodates students from 27 countries. — If you accommodate someone or something, you do what is needed to help or understand them. Our restaurant can accommodate the needs of people with special diets.

accommodate

— verb (= adapt) make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country — verb (= suit) be agreeable or acceptable to This suits my needs — verb provide with something desired or needed Can you accommodate me with a rental car? — verb (= hold, admit) 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 — verb make (one thing) compatible with (another) The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories — verb (= lodge) provide housing for We are lodging three foreign students this semester — verb (= oblige) provide a service or favor for someone We had to oblige him

Synonyms accommodate synonyms

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accommodate English » English

adapt adjust hold fit contain supply put up lodge yield suit reconcile provide host grant give way cede assign arrange oblige help equip conciliate advance support lend gear fix drop compromise benefit avail attend to assist aid admit submit square settle serve room resign receive quarter mount mediate make peace leave keep include house

Conjugation accommodate conjugation

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accommodate · verb

Examples accommodate examples

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Simple sentences

The motel can accommodate as many as 400 guests.
The hotel can accommodate 500 guests.
This classroom can accommodate only thirty students.
This hotel can accommodate 500 guests.
You must accommodate your plans to mine.
It was very far-sighted for that company to change its policy to accommodate the decrease in numbers of children and the aging of society.
Half of the forest will be cut down to build hotels to accommodate the tourists who come to visit the forest.
The city library underwent extensive renovations and can now accommodate twice as many books as before.
The hotel can accommodate fifty guests.
The hotel can accommodate 300 people.
This hotel can accommodate 700 guests.

Movie subtitles

He also wants to know if you can accommodate 400 guests for the weekend.
I, uh, should be very happy to accommodate you.
These seats accommodate two people, don't they?
That ought to be satisfactory. -We'll be happy to accommodate you, sir.
I might be able to accommodate you.
It'll take quite a while to accommodate all these people.
And easy to accommodate five. if you'll sleep them crosswise.
Of course, if you're anxious to find out just how good you are at taking it, we'll accommodate you.
All right, I'll accommodate you.
Will you accommodate her?
Tell Johnny I'll accommodate him.
I may be able to accommodate you.
If people knew what you have inside these walls. you couldn't accommodate the crowds.
I can accommodate you.
That so-called Accelerator Mode may be boosting your thought processes to accommodate your physicality's increased velocity.
Very well. lf you meet our requirements, we'll be only too glad to accommodate you.
My dear Kingston, why would they have constructed it so large if it were not to accommodate city volumes.
And again, it was picked for size rather than style to accommodate some bulky object.
This prison. This prison has almost twice as many men as it was built to accommodate.
Alright, I'll accommodate you.
That's the best way to accommodate things.
Perhaps you can accommodate me.
I think I may be able to accommodate you.
Professor, if people knew what you have inside these walls you couldn't accommodate the crowds.
He also wants to know if you can accommodate 400 guests for the weekend. 400 guests?
These seats accommodate two, don't they?
The bank was only too glad to accommodate you.
About 25. A young aunt. - I can accommodate you.
How many you accommodate here?
I guess we can accommodate you, Vienna.
If you want to get vicious on this thing, I'd be happy to accommodate you.
I think I can accommodate you.
Say you have two chambers that accommodate 2,000 people apiece.
With all three men of your choice ailing, we cannot accommodate your wishes.
Well, I'm afraid it'll be impossible to accommodate you.
I would like you to accommodate us because we're very tired.
You're ordered to alter your flight plan as filed to accommodate.

News and current affairs

Constitutions can, and should, accommodate reform when necessary.
As with deposit insurance, repurchase agreements solve the coordination failure problem because depositors know that, even if they wait, the bank will be able to accommodate their withdrawals.
But US and South Korean leaders were not ready to accommodate Kim's overture.
Yet, the ability of European institutions to accommodate deeper and broader integration is increasingly undermined by the persistence of a contradictory and long-obsolete ideal: the nation-state as the basis of political legitimacy and sovereignty.
The system is very elastic, and has shown itself able to accommodate an increasing number of states.
Although the election ballot will be 40 centimeters long to accommodate all the symbols of the old and new parties, it won't contain the name of even a single candidate.
Institutions will have to be redesigned to accommodate this approach and resolve some of the ambiguities in the current framework, while avoiding discrimination or politicization.
Juncker's Commission risks losing its authority from the start if the rules can be bent or broken to accommodate the larger member states' domestic political priorities.
A regional initiative would also allow Prime Minister David Cameron to accommodate opposition within his party to onshore renewable energy plants.
One can bemoan this fact, but it is better to accommodate oneself to it and accept the notion that it will take decades for Europe to think in the same way on most issues, not least about relations with the US.
Lula remains popular with Brazilians because his populist rhetoric shows real sympathy with the less affluent, and with foreign investors because he has always tempered his radicalism to accommodate economic reality.
Second, the old powers need to accommodate the rise of Globalizer economies - particularly China and India - by reforming our international order.
With its remarkable ability to adapt, China is making strides to accommodate the rising power of its markets and people.
Credible measures that deliver and anchor savings in the medium term will help create space to accommodate growth today - by allowing a slower pace of consolidation.
To accommodate his security needs, the hotel had been converted into a fortress, much like Israel itself.
The way out of this dilemma is to understand what Iran wants - and how to accommodate it without jeopardizing anyone's security.
The Chinese government is therefore considering several policies to increase the pace of urbanization, including the creation of several new large cities to accommodate some of the 600 million individuals who still live in rural China.
If and when the time comes to pause or change course, will China's existing political-economic institutions accommodate such a transformation?
The issue is not whether China needs more investment, but whether China's absorption capacity can continue to accommodate the rapid investment growth of the past decade.
The country has also introduced double shifts in its school system to accommodate some 200,000 Syrian refugee children.
They tried to accommodate the US (it is rumored that Obama phoned Lula and asked for his help), but were nonetheless unwilling to break with Cuba and Venezuela to side openly with the US.
Lebanon is trying to accommodate nearly one million refugees.
A little flexibility here should also be a helpful message to those getting restless in Taiwan that China really can accommodate difference.
If he asks for more than the EU can accommodate, he will look as if he caved in.

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