accommodate

dar cabida a, albergar

Tener espacio suficiente para contener personas o cosas.

En inglés sencillo: 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?

Sinónimos: hold, fit

Expresiones frecuentes: accommodate ten people, accommodate more seats

atender, complacer

Organizar las cosas para satisfacer las necesidades o los deseos de alguien.

En inglés sencillo: 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?

Sinónimos: help, assist, oblige

Expresiones frecuentes: accommodate someone, accommodate special needs

alojar

Proporcionar a personas un lugar donde vivir, quedarse o trabajar.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: house, lodge

Expresiones frecuentes: accommodate guests, accommodate students

adaptar, adaptarse

Cambiar uno mismo o modificar algo para que encaje en una situación nueva.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Cómo se usa: accommodate oneself to something (She had to accommodate herself to the slower pace.)

Sinónimos: adapt, adjust

Expresiones frecuentes: accommodate oneself to something, accommodate something to something

adaptar, ajustar

Interpretar una afirmación o enseñanza para que encaje con determinados hechos o acontecimientos.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Cómo se usa: accommodate something to something (He accommodated the ancient prophecy to recent events.)

Sinónimos: adapt, fit

Expresiones frecuentes: accommodate prophecy to events, accommodate teachings to circumstances