Definition of "accommodate" []

• To do a favor or service for; oblige. See Synonyms at oblige. (verb-transitive)
• To provide for; supply with. (verb-transitive)
• To hold comfortably without crowding. See Synonyms at contain. (verb-transitive)
• To make suitable; adapt. See Synonyms at adapt. (verb-transitive)
• To allow for; consider: an economic proposal that accommodates the interests of senior citizens. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "When a party of the Shays rebels came to the house of General Pomeroy, in Northampton, and asked if he could accommodate them, -- the old soldier, seeing the green sprigs in their hats, the badges of their treason, shouted to his son, "Fetch me my hanger, and I'll _accommodate_ the scoundrels!""
• "The very province we were jointly trying to accommodate is isolated yet again."
• "Larsen said tents were being readied for 400,000 quake victims at mini-villages outside the capital that will initially hold 20,000 people, and in the long term accommodate around one million."