(~s, accommodating, ~d)
1.
If a building or space can ~ someone or something, it has enough room for them.
The school in Poldown was not big enough to ~ all the children...
VERB: no cont, V n
2.
To ~ someone means to provide them with a place to live or stay.
...a hotel built to ~ guests for the wedding of King Alfonso...
Students are ~d in homes nearby.
VERB: V n, be V-ed prep/adv
3.
If something is planned or changed to ~ a particular situation, it is planned or changed so that it takes this situation into account. (FORMAL)
The roads are built to ~ gradual temperature changes...
VERB: V n
4.
If you do something to ~ someone, you do it with the main purpose of pleasing or satisfying them.
He has never put an arm around his wife to ~ photographers...
= oblige
VERB: V n