Definition of Accommodate

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Accommodate

To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.

To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.

To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.

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.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.

To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted.

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

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Accommodate Quotations

We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we've grown and are learning to accommodate each others' differences.
Layne Staley

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
William James

Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.
Mary Oliver

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.
Sting

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.
William Hazlitt

In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events.
Georg Simmel

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
Adolf Hitler

I've always been switching around the show to accommodate the audience, and you know it really makes it a lot more fun for me and keeps it fresh so that I'm not complacent with the same show every night and with every audience.
Deborah Cox

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.
Martha Beck

Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.
John Ashcroft

Accommodate Translations

accommodate in Dutch is afstemmen, aanpassen, adapteren
accommodate in French is adapter, accommodent, accommodez, accommodons
accommodate in German is beherbergen, unterbringen
accommodate in Italian is albergare, accantonare
accommodate in Portuguese is acomode
accommodate in Spanish is acantonar, adaptar, acomodar, alojar, ubicar
accommodate in Swedish is anpassa

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