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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
accommodate
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
car
▪ Both stations are designed to accommodate six-#car trains.
▪ Nearby would be a trail head that could accommodate 15 cars and 10 horse trailers.
▪ The building was enlarged in 1911, as seen here, to accommodate the seasonal toastrack cars used on the Circular Tour.
▪ The road was scarcely wide enough to accommodate two cars travelling abreast but the Audi ploughed up a grass verge.
change
▪ To accommodate that change, it also means a knock-out, rather than round-robin format, which is never exactly satisfactory.
▪ Centers will maintain the flexibility to accommodate changes in specific projects as the need for information changes.
▪ It is among a small number of churches designed specifically to accommodate the liturgical changes which followed from the Second Vatican Council.
▪ Still other industries, such as manufacturing, will find it more difficult to accommodate regulatory change.
▪ But homeotherms are not so well structured to accommodate chronic changes in temperature.
▪ People change and so do opportunities; there is a need continually to make choices to accommodate these changes.
▪ Increasingly, change was more easily accommodated as political relationships changes.
▪ These changes also had a significant impact at the political level as government sought to introduce reforms to accommodate these changes.
child
▪ Section 46 gives the police power to remove and accommodate children in an emergency.
▪ A family centre may also accommodate the child and his family while they receive advice, guidance and counselling.
▪ Local authorities have a duty to accommodate children in certain circumstances and a power to do so in others.
▪ A vast building programme began, to accommodate all children from 11 to 15, and later to 16.
▪ They needed two tables to accommodate the ten children.
demand
▪ The culture is about accepting the statusquo, about accommodating to the demands of the industrial system.
▪ The network was upgraded several times over the last decade to accommodate the increasing demand.
▪ In turn, this stimulated development of switches and routers to accommodate the increasing demands of the networks.
family
▪ The city or suburban dwellings of the new class were at first too small to accommodate the extended family.
▪ Large bedrooms with two large beds accommodating the family for little or no extra cost means revenue from extra meals and drinks.
▪ She serves complementary wine and great conversation for those who wish and is willing to accommodate a family.
▪ Buildings designed to accommodate families as independent units were more individual and less institutionalized.
▪ Every one of them insists our public policies must do a better job of supporting and accommodating and encouraging the family.
▪ Not every employer is able to accommodate every work / family conflict and stay in business.
growth
▪ About 70% of all new aircraft will be bought by airlines just to accommodate that growth, says Boeing.
▪ To accommodate the ongoing growth, the company has now added a highly advanced environmentally controlled pressure sensor calibration laboratory.
guest
▪ The Grand Hall has its own kitchen and bar facility and can accommodate up to 160 guests.
▪ Two ground-floor bedrooms have been designed to accommodate disabled guests.
▪ And perhaps, occasionally, you may be asked to accommodate some very special guests.
▪ The Studios can accommodate up to 300 guests.
▪ Adjoining is the York Suite which accommodates up to 30 guests.
increase
▪ This increase was exclusively confined to the private sector which recorded a massive 115 percent increase in the number accommodated.
need
▪ However, given prior notice, they will accommodate guests' needs.
▪ Your education programs should be designed to accommodate different needs within your workforce.
▪ By and large, the academic community seems content simply to accommodate to the instrumental needs of post-industrial society.
▪ News directors accommodate the visual needs of politicians because television needs pictures.
▪ Community Based Planners will have to consider alternatives to accommodating the needs of those living in more rural areas.
▪ Spreadsheets and general ledger systems alone can not accommodate the information needs of all managers and executives.
number
▪ The school was extended to accommodate the increased number of children and an additional school was built for the infants.
▪ Set them at distances to accommodate the largest possible number or other entry in that column.
▪ Drove roads have wide verges originally to accommodate large numbers of animals on the move.
▪ To accommodate such large numbers, visitors were asked to arrive at different times, all carefully co-ordinated to avoid a jam.
▪ Even with a much smaller capacity than Wembley, Swindon's County Ground accommodates the same number of disabled fans.
passenger
▪ Despite their great size, the new cars only seated 56, although their massive platforms could accommodate many standing passengers.
▪ Passengers will sail aboard a 95-foot vessel, which accommodates up to 12 passengers.
▪ One of these saloons, built in 1905, had two double and seven single berths, and accommodated eleven passengers.
▪ Nineteen cabins, more than any other ship, are designed to accommodate disabled passengers.
people
▪ The idea that you can accommodate people with these special needs in large units.
▪ However, it has scheduled three extra round trips between Phoenix and Las Vegas on Sunday, to accommodate people staying there.
▪ It was taller than a man, and big enough to accommodate four or five people inside.
▪ Two wards, built for 60 patients each, came to accommodate more than 550 people.
▪ This artificial world would contain enough room to accommodate more than 1016 people.
▪ Sand had been shipped in to form a deeper and wider beach, to accommodate up to two hundred people.
room
▪ Our eleven purpose-built meeting halls and ten executive rooms can comfortably accommodate a meeting for six or a major conference hosting hundreds.
▪ This artificial world would contain enough room to accommodate more than 1016 people.
▪ All rooms accommodate up to 3 adults with a small number of rooms able to accommodate two adults and two children.
▪ Walls had been pulled down to make this a room that accommodated nearly all the ground floor.
space
▪ This space had previously accommodated the organ loft.
▪ The wider the curtains, or longer the blind, the more space needed to accommodate them.
▪ Some incorporated timber-framed lean-to houses, and the central open space could accommodate livestock.
student
▪ The Course also goes a long way to accommodate the not uncommon student experience of making a mistaken choice of degree subject.
system
▪ Spreadsheets and general ledger systems alone can not accommodate the information needs of all managers and executives.
▪ Flexibility should be built into the system to accommodate additional indices.
▪ Western models were influential because they met a need for a system that could accommodate diversity.
▪ The money was desperately needed to expand the system to accommodate an ever-increasing population.
▪ Further disk and tape systems can be accommodated, along with up to 64 Transputers.
▪ They were inevitable, for they were part of the capacity of the system to accommodate itself to change.
■ VERB
build
▪ In the early 1900s the 4,700-seat auditorium was built to accommodate growing audiences.
▪ The workhouse, erected with its fine boardroom in 1838 at a cost of £2,000, was built to accommodate 170 inmates.
▪ Also, conservatories need not necessarily be built to accommodate an existing door of the house.
▪ In the early eighties the marina was built and now accommodates hundreds of foreign yachts.
design
▪ Both stations are designed to accommodate six-car trains.
▪ Receptors come in dozens of varieties, each specially designed to accommodate one of the dozens of neurotransmitters used by the brain.
▪ Storage accommodation had to be designed to accommodate upwards of 10,000 items used in these repairs.
▪ Nineteen cabins, more than any other ship, are designed to accommodate disabled passengers.
▪ Two ground-floor bedrooms have been designed to accommodate disabled guests.
▪ Your education programs should be designed to accommodate different needs within your workforce.
▪ All vehicles carry videotapes and illustrative material and are designed to accommodate up to sixteen girls working in pairs at eight work stations.
▪ Buildings designed to accommodate families as independent units were more individual and less institutionalized.
expand
▪ First, you must expand your psyche to accommodate the bigger and better.
▪ The money was desperately needed to expand the system to accommodate an ever-increasing population.
▪ These reservoirs behave as imperfectly elastic containers, expanding and contracting to accommodate fluxes of melt.
▪ They could not expand enough to accommodate all who chose them.
try
▪ Why not, therefore, consider trying to accommodate that feature?
▪ Our park and land managers are trying to accommodate these reductions with the least impact on visitors.
▪ Now, steps are being taken to try to accommodate everyone.
▪ Naturally, I certainly tried to accommodate their wishes, but the final decision was mine to make.
▪ Jackson has tried to accommodate him by adding an offensive twist in which Rodman plays in the low post.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ If your microwave is large enough to accommodate the turkey, thaw it in a glass baking dish.
▪ Migrant workers to be accommodated near the place where they work.
▪ Nineteen cabins on the new ship are designed to accommodate disabled passengers.
▪ Once you been accepted at the university they promise to accommodate you in a dormitory.
▪ Students can study the habits of animals that have to accommodate to changes in weather.
▪ The hotel can only accommodate 200 people.
▪ We have made reasonable efforts to accommodate employees' requests for transfers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Centers will maintain the flexibility to accommodate changes in specific projects as the need for information changes.
▪ Coach Carr, please adjust the microphone to accommodate your 6 feet 6 inches.
▪ He is a natural opener, and Paul Terry has dropped down the order to accommodate him.
▪ His main task was tastefully to accommodate as many wedding presents into their new homes as was practicable.
▪ Nineteen cabins, more than any other ship, are designed to accommodate disabled passengers.
▪ Remember to adjust the straps at the beginning and the end of the season to accommodate either bare feet or boots.
▪ The ground floor of the new building will accommodate physiotherapy and hydrotherapy departments, orthopaedic clinic and an x-ray room.
▪ We needed all our land to accommodate our growing population.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accommodate

Accommodate \Ac*com"mo*date\, v. i. To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted. [R.]
--Boyle.

Accommodate

Accommodate \Ac*com"mo*date\, a. [L. accommodatus, p. p. of accommodare.] Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end. [Archaic]
--Tillotson.

Accommodate

Accommodate \Ac*com"mo*date\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accommodated; p. pr. & vb. n. Accommodating.] [L. accommodatus, p. p. of accommodare; ad + commodare to make fit, help; con- + modus measure, proportion. See Mode.]

  1. To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances. ``They accommodate their counsels to his inclination.''
    --Addison.

  2. To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.

  3. To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.

  4. 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.

    Syn: To suit; adapt; conform; adjust; arrange.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
accommodate

1530s, from Latin accomodatus "suitable," past participle of accomodare "make fit, adapt, fit one thing to another," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + commodare "make fit," from commodus "fit" (see commode). Related: Accommodated; accommodating.

Wiktionary
accommodate

  1. (label en obsolete) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means '''accommodate''' to end. v

  2. 1 (context transitive often reflexive English) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to '''accommodate''' ourselves to circumstances. 2 (context transitive English) To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to '''accommodate''' differences, a dispute, et

  3. 3 (context transitive English) To provide housing for; to furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; as, to '''accommodate''' a friend with a loan or with lodgings. 4 (context transitive English) To do a favor or service for; to oblige; 5 (context transitive English) 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. 6 (context transitive English) To give consideration to; to allow for. 7 (context transitive English) To contain comfortably; to have space for. 8 (context intransitive rare English) To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted; become adjuste

WordNet
accommodate

  1. v. be agreeable or acceptable to; "This suits my needs" [syn: suit, fit]

  2. make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose; "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country" [syn: adapt]

  3. provide with something desired or needed; "Can you accommodate me with a rental car?"

  4. 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" [syn: hold, admit]

  5. provide housing for; "We are lodging three foreign students this semester" [syn: lodge]

  6. provide a service or favor for someone; "We had to oblige him" [syn: oblige] [ant: disoblige]

  7. make compatible with; "The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories" [syn: reconcile, conciliate]

Usage examples of "accommodate".

A partitioned room will accommodate either a summer or a winter dairy, if not otherwise provided, and a multitude of conveniences may be made of it in all well arranged farmeries.

If it be constructed under the main body only, an offset should be excavated to accommodate the cellar stairs, three feet in width, and walled in with the rest.

II, in style and arrangement, and may accommodate not only the farm laborer or gardener, but will serve for a small farmer himself, or a village mechanic.

The two end posts directly in the rear of the front corner posts, should be 3 feet back from them, and on a line to accommodate the pitch of the roof from the front to the rear.

In this way we can accommodate more than a hundred head of cattle, of assorted ages.

The steps were close together, far too close to accommodate human feet.

But unlike those in the body of the craft, they were full-size, large enough to accommodate her.

His faded, sky-blue military coat might have once graced a Polish officer of wide girth, but it now hung open to accommodate the broad chest of its present owner.

Captain Nekrasov refused to accommodate me, but his sergeant proved far more generous with the facts.

Though a bit slender for his taste, she was nevertheless rounded in all the right places and had enough height to accommodate his enormous frame.

Therefore, Synnovea, you may ask the Countess Andreyevna if she will accommodate your new marital status as a personal favor to me.

As always in his case, the human universe bent to accommodate him with the alacrity of a gravity field around a neutron star.

For you, only a few seconds will have gone past, but outside, the rest of the Commonwealth will have had enough time to build new basic cities and towns with a functioning infrastructure to accommodate you.

The short drive ended with him being carried onto a hypersonic aircraft, just big enough to accommodate Tochee at the back where a dozen seats had been removed.

The dock areas were extensive, with long wharves that could accommodate ten large ships.