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/əkˈɑmədˌeɪtɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Accommodate v. t. (past & past part. accommodated; pres. part. accommodating)

To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances. "They accommodate their counsels to his inclination."

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

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

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.

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

Accommodate v. i. To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted. (R.)

adjective

Accommodating adj. Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement.

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"Accommodating" Quotes from Famous Books

... puzzled at first by the inconvenience in some ways of his exaltation in rank. There was some difficulty at first in accommodating himself to ...

— Fritz and Eric - The Brother Crusoes • John Conroy Hutcheson

... breast-plate and back-plate of proof, fastened together with iron clasps, was no convenient enclosure for a man who meant to eat venison and custard; and that a buff-coat or shirt of mail was scarcely more accommodating to the exertions necessary on such active occasions. Besides, there were other objections, as the alarming and menacing aspects which such warlike habiliments gave to the Exchange, and other places, where merchants most do congregate; and excoriations were bitterly complained ...

— Peveril of the Peak • Sir Walter Scott

... seems to be under an excitement produced by the publication of our anti-colonization resolutions. This being the case, it is not to be expected that he would, throughout his communication, avail himself of the guarded, accommodating, and conciliating language usual with colonization writers and declaimers. After being convinced that the people of color are not to be persuaded to leave the land of their birth, and every thing vernacular with them, for "regions" which he tells us are "now dark as the valley ...

— Thoughts on African Colonization • William Lloyd Garrison

... of opinion, of course. "Words"? How should we? He was always so wonderfully accommodating, so polite, so apologetic even. Nobody ever had a finer contempt for his party than he—not even old Dizzy, or Salisbury, or Churchill. So he could always say the handsome thing to one—behind its back—even when he was making burnt-offerings to ...

— Angels & Ministers • Laurence Housman

... matter into consideration. The Duke de St. Simon was of opinion that nothing could save the country from revolution but a remedy at once bold and dangerous. He advised the regent to convoke the states-general, and declare a national bankruptcy. The Duke de Noailles, a man of accommodating principles, an accomplished courtier, and totally averse from giving himself any trouble or annoyance that ingenuity could escape from, opposed the project of St. Simon with all his influence. He represented the expedient as ...

— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds • Charles Mackay

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