ACCOMMODATE


Meaning of ACCOMMODATE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ əkɒmədeɪt ]

( accommodates, accommodating, accommodated)

1.

If a building or space can accommodate someone or something, it has enough room for them.

The school in Poldown was not big enough to accommodate all the children...

VERB : no cont , V n

2.

To accommodate someone means to provide them with a place to live or stay.

...a hotel built to accommodate guests for the wedding of King Alfonso...

Students are accommodated in homes nearby.

VERB : V n , be V-ed prep / adv

3.

If something is planned or changed to accommodate a particular situation, it is planned or changed so that it takes this situation into account. ( FORMAL )

The roads are built to accommodate gradual temperature changes...

VERB : V n

4.

If you do something to accommodate someone, you do it with the main purpose of pleasing or satisfying them.

He has never put an arm around his wife to accommodate photographers...

= oblige

VERB : V n

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