Meaning Of Accommodate In English - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of accommodate in English accommodateverb [ T ] uk /əˈkɒm.ə.deɪt/ us /əˈkɑː.mə.deɪt/

accommodate verb [T] (FIND A PLACE FOR)

Add to word list Add to word list to provide with a place to live or to be stored in: New students may be accommodated in halls of residence.formal There wasn't enough space to accommodate the files. to accommodate someone

• accommodateThere aren’t enough rooms to accommodate all the students.
• give accommodation toThe university gives free accommodation to nursing students.
• provide accommodation toWe only provide accommodation to first-year students.
• lodgeStudents will be lodged with host families.
• houseThe base can house up to 2,000 soldiers.
• put someone upI can put you up for a couple of nights.

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• While he was at the library, Steve decided to seek out some information on accommodation in the area.
• Feeling guilty for the homeless is one thing, finding cheap secure accommodation for them is quite another thing.
• Hostels are usually provided as a stopgap until the families can be housed in permanent accommodation.
• There's accommodation for about five hundred students on campus.
• The price includes travel and accommodation but meals are extra.

Accommodating people

• billet
• board
• board and lodging
• boarding and lodging
• deinstitutionalize
• fooding and lodging
• full board
• half board
• house
• modified American plan
• non-residential
• noninstitutionalized
• placement
• put
• put something away phrasal verb
• resettlement
• room and board
• seat
• self-catering
• settle

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accommodate verb [T] (SUIT)

to give what is needed to someone: accommodate someone with something We always try to accommodate (= help) our clients with financial assistance if necessary. The new policies fail to accommodate people with disabilities.  accommodate yourself to change yourself or your behaviour to suit another person or new conditions: Some find it hard to accommodate themselves to the new working conditions. She was desperately trying to accommodate herself to her new living arrangements. At that point, I had not accommodated myself to the life of a fisherman. We tried to find a way of accommodating ourselves to a society we disliked. As a politician, he had to be able to accommodate himself to public opinion. Giving, providing and supplying

• accommodate someone with something
• administer
• administration
• afford
• arm someone with something
• assignment
• be good for something idiom
• dish
• go round phrasal verb
• hand something around phrasal verb
• hand something back phrasal verb
• hand something down phrasal verb
• outfit
• provision
• purvey
• purveyor
• put something on phrasal verb
• re-equip
• re-equipment
• render

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Adapting and modifying

accommodate verb [T] (EYE)

anatomy   specialized (of an eye) to change the shape of the lens in order to focus (= see clearly) Using the eyes

• accommodation
• all eyes are on someone/something idiom
• astigmatic
• beholder
• binocular
• catch
• clock
• eyeful
• gawk
• leer
• look up phrasal verb
• look-see
• not take your eyes off someone/something idiom
• observational
• observationally
• observed
• ogle
• scan
• shoot
• squint

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accommodate | American Dictionary

accommodateverb [ T ] us /əˈkɑm·əˌdeɪt/

accommodate verb [T] (FIND A PLACE FOR)

Add to word list Add to word list to provide space or a place for a group: The new dormitory will be able to accommodate an additional 200 students.

accommodate verb [T] (SUIT)

to give what is needed to someone: We certainly try to accommodate students with disabilities. (Definition of accommodate from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

accommodate | Business English

accommodateverb [ T ] uk /əˈkɒmədeɪt/ us Add to word list Add to word list to have or provide the space that someone or something needs: The centre can accommodate up to 220 students. The airport simply doesn't have enough room to accommodate increased air traffic. to give someone what they want or need: An employer has to accommodate the request of an employee not to work Sundays if there are other employees willing to switch shifts. to consider and include something in a design or plan: To accommodate wheelchairs, all he had to do was widen the doorways. (Definition of accommodate from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of accommodate

accommodate Together the three dimensions produced a diplomatic synergy that both complicated, and ultimately accommodated a diplomatic solution. From the Cambridge English Corpus Conversely, accommodating monetary regimes are compatible with real wage restraint and full employment in centralized bargaining systems, while they encourage wage-price militancy in decentralized ones. From the Cambridge English Corpus Accommodation rooms were cleaned and disinfected one section at a time, and new guests were accommodated in the cleaned sections. From the Cambridge English Corpus One of the advantages of questionnaires is the large number of participants that can be accommodated (compared with interviews or other methods). From the Cambridge English Corpus Where parents are accommodating care, gender differences in labour market attachment, continuity and flexibility are much more evident. From the Cambridge English Corpus Valence issues are not readily accommodated within the spatial frame, but are almost universally considered to be important determinants of election outcomes. From the Cambridge English Corpus To maximize efficiency, the application programmer should choose the most specialized skeleton which accommodates his/her algorithm. From the Cambridge English Corpus The series exhibit many irregularities that cannot be easily accommodated by formal time-series models. From the Cambridge English Corpus Their six guiding principles for research capacity building include a whole system approach, accommodating diversity, reducing barriers to participation, enabling collaboration, mentoring and networking. From the Cambridge English Corpus The account of the unstressability of latent vowels in odd-numbered syllable positions can easily be accommodated in the analysis of the polymorphemic forms. From the Cambridge English Corpus To what extent a resurgence of midwifery-led care will be accommodated remains to be fully assessed. From the Cambridge English Corpus Another answer for why companies should be so accommodating to workers is simply that it pays to do so. From the Cambridge English Corpus A finite number of different consumer types could be accommodated by appropriately stacking the variables and the dynamic system describing the learning dynamics. From the Cambridge English Corpus When he was placed in the middle as a mediator, he contributed to the smooth ending by accommodating to both sides. From the Cambridge English Corpus The focus is now on her desires and goals and not on accommodating to her son in any way. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of accommodate These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of accommodate?

Translations of accommodate

in Chinese (Traditional) 為…找個地方, 為…提供住宿, 容納… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 为…找个地方, 为…提供住宿, 容纳… See more in Spanish alojar, contener, tener en cuenta… See more in Portuguese acomodar, alojar, comportar… See more in Turkish in French in Japanese in Dutch in Czech in Danish in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Ukrainian eşya veya insanlar için yeteri kadar yer, alan sağlamak, bir şeyler sağlayarak birinin istediği şeyleri yapmak… See more loger, accueillir, satisfaire… See more 収容（しゅうよう）する, 便宜（べんぎ）を図（はか）る… See more huisvesten, van dienst zijn… See more ubytovat, vyhovět, uspokojit… See more huse, rumme, have plads til… See more menampung, memenuhi… See more จัดที่อยู่ให้เหมาะสำหรับ, อำนวยความสะดวก… See more cung cấp chỗ ở cho ai, đáp ứng… See more pomieścić, zaspokajać, spełniać… See more inhysa, tillgodose… See more menempatkan, memenuhi… See more aufnehmen, entgegenkommen, berücksichtigen… See more ta imot, innkvartere, romme… See more давати комусь притулок, надавати житло, задовольняти… See more Need a translator?

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    • accommodate (FIND A PLACE FOR)
    • accommodate (SUIT)
    • accommodate yourself
    • accommodate (EYE)
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    • accommodate (FIND A PLACE FOR)
    • accommodate (SUIT)
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