accommodate

Verb

• be agreeable or acceptable to
• make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
• provide with something desired or needed
  • "Can you accommodate me with a rental car?"
• have room for; hold without crowding
  • "This hotel can accommodate 250 guests"
• provide housing for
• provide a service or favor for someone
• make (one thing) compatible with (another)
  • "The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories"
• To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
• To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.
• To provide housing for.
• To provide sufficient space for.
• To contain comfortably; to have space for.
• To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.
• To do a favor or service for; to oblige.
• 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.
• To give consideration to; to allow for.
• To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
• To change focal length in order to focus at a different distance.

Adj

• Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.

Examples

• This venue accommodates three hundred people.
• to accommodate a friend with a loan
• to accommodate an old friend for a week
• to accommodate differences
• to accommodate ourselves to circumstances
• to accommodate prophecy to events

Synonyms

adapt, admit, conciliate, fit, hold, lodge, oblige, reconcile, suit, adjust, arrange, conform

Antonyms

disoblige, discommodate