accommodate

/ə'kɔmədeit/

Thân thiện

The hotel can accommodate a large wedding party.

Definition

1. Verb:
   • To provide space or lodging for: To have or make room for someone or something; to offer a place to stay.
   • To make suitable or compatible: To adjust, adapt, or reconcile something to fit new conditions or requirements.
   • To provide what is needed or desired: To do a favor or supply something for someone.

Examples

• Verb:
  • The hotel can accommodate 300 guests.
  • We need to accommodate our schedule to the new time zone.
  • The bank was happy to accommodate him with a loan.

Advanced Usage

• "to accommodate oneself to something": To adjust one's own behavior or thinking to suit a new situation.

  • She quickly accommodated herself to the fast pace of city life.

• "to accommodate a request": To agree to and fulfill what someone has asked for.

  • The manager was willing to accommodate our special request.

Variants and Related Words

• Accommodating (adj): Willing to help or oblige; fitting in with someone's wishes or needs.

  • The staff was very accommodating and moved us to a quieter room.

• Accommodation (n):

  • A place where someone can live or stay; lodging.

    • We found affordable accommodation near the university.
  • A settlement or compromise.

    • The two parties reached an accommodation on the contract terms.

Synonyms

• Lodge: To provide someone with a place to sleep or live.
• Adapt: To make something suitable for a new use or purpose.
• Oblige: To do as someone asks or desires in order to help them.

Related Phrasal Verbs

• Accommodate to: (Less common) To adapt or adjust to something.
  • It took time for the animals to accommodate to their new environment.

Related Idioms

• "Bend over backwards to accommodate someone": To try extremely hard to help someone or meet their needs.
  • The team bent over backwards to accommodate the client's last-minute changes.

Học thuật

Verb

1. make (one thing) compatible with (another)
   • The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories
2. provide a service or favor for someone
   • We had to oblige him
3. provide housing for
   • We are lodging three foreign students this semester
4. have room for; hold without crowding
   • This hotel can accommodate 250 guests
   • The theater admits 300 people
   • The auditorium can't hold more than 500 people
5. provide with something desired or needed
   • Can you accommodate me with a rental car?
6. make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
   • Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country
7. be agreeable or acceptable to
   • This suits my needs

Từ đồng nghĩa

• reconcile
• conciliate
• oblige
• lodge
• hold
• admit
• adapt
• suit
• fit