accommodate
Verb
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Be agreeable or acceptable to (synset 202708690)
"This suits my needs"
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Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose (synset 200300361)
"Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country"is a type of: alter, change, vary - become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essencesubtypes:
- adjust - make correspondent or conformable
- gear, pitch - set the level or character of
- fit - insert or adjust several objects or people
- anglicise, anglicize - make English in appearance
- shoehorn - fit for a specific purpose even when not well suited
- orient, tailor - adjust to a specific need or market
- domesticate, tame - make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
- cultivate, domesticate, naturalise, naturalize, tame - adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
- christianize - adapt in the name of Christianity
- naturalise, naturalize - adopt to another place
- electrify, wire - equip for use with electricity
- transcribe - rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended
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Provide with something desired or needed (synset 201186986)
"Can you accommodate me with a rental car?"
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Have room for;
Hold without crowding (synset 202738673)"This hotel can accommodate 250 guests"; "The theater admits 300 people"; "The auditorium can't hold more than 500 people" -
Provide housing for (synset 202657519)
"We are lodging three foreign students this semester"subtypes:same as: lodge
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Provide a service or favor for someone (synset 200887446)
"We had to oblige him"is a type of: abide by, comply, follow - act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishessame as: oblige
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Make (one thing) compatible with (another) (synset 200483824)
"The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories"same as: conciliate, reconcile
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