Etymology First use appears c. the 1530s, borrowed from Latin accommodātus, perfect passive participle of accommodō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + commodō (“to provide, lend; to make fit, accommodate”), from con- + modus (“measure, proportion, limit”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix) (see English mode).
Often To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
to accommodate ourselves to circumstances
IT is an old Obſervation, which has been made of Politicians who would rather ingratiate themſelves with their Sovereign, than promote his real Service, that they accommodate their Counſels to his Inclinations, and adviſe him to ſuch Actions only as his Heart is naturally ſet upon.1712 June 28 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “TUESDAY, June 18, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 475; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 15:
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To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.
to accommodate differences
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To provide housing for.
to accommodate an old friend for a week
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To provide sufficient space for.
My next stop is Oxford, which has also grown with the addition of new platforms to accommodate the Chiltern Railways service to London via Bicester - although, short sightedly, the planned electrification from Paddington was canned.2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, pages 67–68:
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To contain comfortably; to have space for.
This venue accommodates three hundred people.
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To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.
to accommodate a friend with a loan
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To do a favor or service for; to oblige.
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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 accommodate prophecy to events
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To give consideration to; to allow for.
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Rare To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
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Medicine, Ophthalmology, Sciences Of an eye, to change focal length in order to focus at a different distance.
Etymology First use appears c. the 1530s, borrowed from Latin accommodātus, perfect passive participle of accommodō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + commodō (“to provide, lend; to make fit, accommodate”), from con- + modus (“measure, proportion, limit”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix) (see English mode).
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Obsolete Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.
God did not primarily intend to appoint this way of Worſhip, and to impoſe it upon them as that which was moſt proper and agreeable to him ; but that he condeſcended to it, as moſt accommodate to their preſent ſtate and inclination.a. 1671, John Tillotson, Sermons Preach’d Upon Several Occaſions, London: A.M., page 181: