Words / C1

uh-KOM-uh-dayt/əˈkɒmədeɪt/

Accommodate has two C1 uses: provide space or lodging, and adapt your plans or behaviour to help someone. Native writers use accommodate a request, accommodate differences. Contain is only about capacity. Adapt is close to the second meaning but does not cover housing. Accommodation is the noun for a place to stay (uncountable in British English: some accommodation).

Meaning

To provide space or lodging, or to adapt in order to help.

Examples

• “The hall can accommodate two hundred people.”
• “The hotel could not accommodate our group at short notice.”
• “The schedule was altered to accommodate students who work.”

Good to know

1) provide space. 2) adapt to help. UK noun: accommodation (usually uncountable).

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