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Definition of Accommodate
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

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

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

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

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

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

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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