accommodate

If something can hold people or things, it has enough space for them.

• This hall can accommodate two hundred people.
• The garage accommodates both cars easily.
• Can the shelves accommodate these larger books?

Similar words: hold, fit

Common phrases: accommodate ten people, accommodate more seats

If you help someone in this way, you arrange things to meet their needs or wishes.

• We can accommodate your request.
• The teacher accommodated her need for extra time.
• Can you accommodate customers with food allergies?

Similar words: help, assist, oblige

Common phrases: accommodate someone, accommodate special needs

If a place houses people, it gives them somewhere to live, stay, or work.

• The hotel can accommodate your family.
• The college accommodated students in nearby houses.
• Temporary cabins accommodate workers during the summer.

Similar words: house, lodge

Common phrases: accommodate guests, accommodate students

To change yourself or something so that it fits a new situation.

• We must accommodate ourselves to these changes.
• He accommodated his routine to the new timetable.
• They gradually accommodated themselves to life abroad.

How to use it: accommodate oneself to something (She had to accommodate herself to the slower pace.)

Similar words: adapt, adjust

Common phrases: accommodate oneself to something, accommodate something to something

To explain a statement or teaching in a way that makes it fit particular facts or events.

• They accommodate the teaching to modern circumstances.
• The scholar accommodated the passage to known historical events.
• She tried to accommodate his statement to the facts.

How to use it: accommodate something to something (He accommodated the ancient prophecy to recent events.)

Similar words: adapt, fit

Common phrases: accommodate prophecy to events, accommodate teachings to circumstances