All 3 Uses of
accommodate
in
The Poisonwood Bible
- With the help of friends I rearranged my small apartment to accommodate a grown-up baby, and warily crept each morning from a mattress to my coffee maker and hotplate on the kitchen floor.†
Chpt 5
- I think Tata Ndu was gently suggesting we'd become a burden to his village in a time of near famine; that people here accommodate such burdens by rearranging families; and that if we found such an idea impossible we were perhaps better off somewhere else.†
Chpt 5
- Sometimes we go out to a restaurant in the Atlanta Underground, or see a film at a theater that accommodates his wheelchair.†
Chpt 6 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(accommodate as in: the room can accommodate four) provide (or have the ability to provide) for something desired or needed
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(2)
(accommodate as in: moved to accommodate her) adjust something to provide for a need; or help
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(3)
(accommodations as in: hotel accommodations) space, lodgings, or other needs -- such as a hotel room and services