What does "accommodate" mean?
Accommodate: To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.
Additional senses
- 2.To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.
- 3.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.
- 4.To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted. [R.] Boyle.
- 5.Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end. [Archaic] Tillotson.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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