accommodate
v.v. to provide a place for someone to stay or to have enough space for a specific number of people. It can also mean changing your plans to help someone else.
v. to provide lodging or sufficient space for; to adapt one's actions or environment to meet the needs or requirements of another. Transitive — requires a direct object.
The new hotel can accommodate five hundred guests.
The manager agreed to shift the meeting time to accommodate the overseas team's schedule.
While the primary goal was to accommodate the influx of refugees, the local government also had to ensure that existing infrastructure could support the sudden population increase without failing.
1530s, borrowed from Latin accommodātus, perfect passive participle of accommodō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + commodō (“to provide, lend; to make fit, accommodate”), from con- + modus (“measure, proportion, limit”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix) (see English mode).
The verb is transitive and takes a direct object. When used in the sense of 'making room for', it often takes a direct object representing the person or thing being helped.
The hotel accommodates to 200 peopleThe hotel accommodates 200 peopleAccommodate is a transitive verb and does not require the preposition 'to' when followed by a direct object.