accommodate
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Is accommodate a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive, often reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.Examples: "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."Synonyms: adapt, conform, adjust, arrange, suitoftenreflexivetransitive
2. (transitive) To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.Examples: "to accommodate differences"Synonyms: reconciletransitive
3. (transitive) To provide housing for.Examples: "to accommodate an old friend for a week"transitive
4. (transitive) To provide sufficient space for.Examples: "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."transitive
5. (transitive) To contain comfortably; to have space for.Examples: "This venue accommodates three hundred people."transitive
6. (transitive) To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.Examples: "to accommodate a friend with a loan"transitive
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.Examples: "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."obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary