accommodate

Etymology

1530s, from Latin accommodātus, perfect passive participle of accommodō; ad + commodō (“make fit, help”); com- + modus (“measure, proportion”) (English mode).

verb

1. (transitive, often reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
   to accommodate ourselves to circumstances
2. (transitive) To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.
   to accommodate differences
3. (transitive) To provide housing for.
   to accommodate an old friend for a week
4. To provide sufficient space for
   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. December 2 2020, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, pages 67–68
5. (transitive) To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.
   to accommodate a friend with a loan
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.
   to accommodate prophecy to events
8. (transitive) To give consideration to; to allow for.
9. (transitive) To contain comfortably; to have space for.
   This venue accommodates three hundred people.
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.

adj

1. (obsolete) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.
   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