Reaccommodate

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Adjusting or fitting someone or something once more to a new situation, arrangement, or need after an earlier accommodation has been undone or changed
2. Providing lodging, space, or adaptation again for a person or thing that has previously been housed or adjusted to fit circumstances
3. Making room or adapting once more so that a party, object, or system can comfortably fit a changed set of conditions

Etymology: "Reaccommodate" is simply "accommodate" with the prefix "re-" attached, meaning to make room again or to adjust something to fit anew. Its core lies in the Latin "commodus," meaning "fitting," "suitable," or "convenient," which itself came from "com-" (together) and "modus" (measure, manner). So the underlying idea is things brought into proper measure with one another. "Accommodate" came into English from the Latin "accommodare," meaning to fit or adapt something to something else, built from "ad-" (to) plus "commodare." Its earliest English sense was closer to "supply with what is needed" or "provide lodging," which explains why the word now covers both hosting guests and adjusting to circumstances. The English verb "reaccommodate" follows the same pattern: "re-" from Old French and Latin, meaning "again," attached to "accommodate."