accommodate

contenir, accueillir

Avoir assez de place pour recevoir des personnes ou contenir des objets.

En anglais simple : If something can hold people or things, it has enough space for them.

• This hall can accommodate two hundred people.
• The garage accommodates both cars easily.
• Can the shelves accommodate these larger books?

Synonymes : hold, fit

Expressions courantes : accommodate ten people, accommodate more seats

satisfaire, répondre à

Organiser les choses pour répondre aux besoins ou aux souhaits de quelqu’un.

En anglais simple : If you help someone in this way, you arrange things to meet their needs or wishes.

• We can accommodate your request.
• The teacher accommodated her need for extra time.
• Can you accommodate customers with food allergies?

Synonymes : help, assist, oblige

Expressions courantes : accommodate someone, accommodate special needs

héberger, loger

Offrir à des personnes un endroit pour vivre, séjourner ou travailler.

En anglais simple : If a place houses people, it gives them somewhere to live, stay, or work.

• The hotel can accommodate your family.
• The college accommodated students in nearby houses.
• Temporary cabins accommodate workers during the summer.

Synonymes : house, lodge

Expressions courantes : accommodate guests, accommodate students

adapter, s’adapter

Se changer ou modifier quelque chose pour l’ajuster à une nouvelle situation.

En anglais simple : To change yourself or something so that it fits a new situation.

• We must accommodate ourselves to these changes.
• He accommodated his routine to the new timetable.
• They gradually accommodated themselves to life abroad.

Comment l'utiliser : accommodate oneself to something (She had to accommodate herself to the slower pace.)

Synonymes : adapt, adjust

Expressions courantes : accommodate oneself to something, accommodate something to something

adapter, faire correspondre

Interpréter une affirmation ou un enseignement pour le faire correspondre à certains faits ou événements.

En anglais simple : To explain a statement or teaching in a way that makes it fit particular facts or events.

• They accommodate the teaching to modern circumstances.
• The scholar accommodated the passage to known historical events.
• She tried to accommodate his statement to the facts.

Comment l'utiliser : accommodate something to something (He accommodated the ancient prophecy to recent events.)

Synonymes : adapt, fit

Expressions courantes : accommodate prophecy to events, accommodate teachings to circumstances