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Accommodator - 3 dictionary results

ac⋅com⋅mo⋅da⋅tor

[uh-kom-uh-dey-ter]
–noun
1. a person or thing that accommodates.
2. a domestic worker employed on a part-time basis or when needed.

Origin:
1620–30; accommodate + -or 2
ac·com·mo·date   (ə-kŏm'ə-dāt')   
v.   ac·com·mo·dat·ed, ac·com·mo·dat·ing, ac·com·mo·dates

v.   tr.
  1. To do a favor or service for; oblige. See Synonyms at oblige.
  2. To provide for; supply with.
  3. To hold comfortably without crowding. See Synonyms at contain.
  4. To make suitable; adapt. See Synonyms at adapt.
  5. To allow for; consider: an economic proposal that accommodates the interests of senior citizens.
  6. To settle; reconcile.
v.   intr.
  1. To adapt oneself; become adjusted: It is never easy to accommodate to social change.
  2. Physiology To become adjusted, as the eye to focusing on objects at a distance.

[Latin accomodāre, accomodāt-, to fit : ad-, ad- + commodus, suitable; see commodious.]
ac·com'mo·da'tive adj., ac·com'mo·da'tive·ness n., ac·com'mo·da'tor n.

Accommodator

Ac*com"mo*da`tor\, n. He who, or that which, accommodates. --Warburton.
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