accommodatoryadj.
/əˌkɒməˈdeɪt(ə)ri/, /əˈkɒmədət(ə)ri/, U.S. /əˌkɑməˈdeɪtɔri/, /əˈkɑmədəˌtɔri/ Providing or involving accommodation (in various senses); esp. adapting or adjusting to movement or change; tending to accommodate.
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1784 Polit. Mag. & Parl., Naval, Mil. & Lit. Jrnl. Jan. 63/1 They would suffer him to model all the accommodatory matters as he pleased.
1817 J. Sansom Sketches Lower Canada 14 Really terrifying explosions..have lately happened on board of these accommodatory conveyances [sc. steamboats].
1847 H. N. Moore Fitzgerald & Hopkins viii. 116 The committee then expressed their gratitude to him for the accommodatory spirit which he evinced upon so important an occasion.
1901 Westm. Gaz. 30 Oct. 2/1 If the Board..had instructed their inspectors..to see that all seats and desks are such that the occupants run no risk of contracting accommodatory spasm, they would have done real good.
1987 Nature 14 May 111/1 The immune response is not by design rejectional but accommodatory.
2003 G. Fealy in S. Akbarzadeh & A. Saeed Islam & Polit. Legitimacy 158 Traditionalists tended to adopt a more pragmatic and accommodatory approach to politics than did modernists.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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