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majoittaa — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • accommodate verb To provide someone with a place to stay or space to fit.
  • bestow verb To give something formally or ceremonially, often as an honour.
  • billet noun Temporary lodging assigned to a soldier or, more generally, a guest staying with a private family.
  • board verb To get onto a ship, plane, train, or other vehicle to travel.
  • bunk noun A narrow bed, often one of a stacked pair, as found on a ship, in a cabin, or a dorm.
  • lodge verb To become firmly fixed in a particular position.
  • put up phrasal verb To build, erect or fix something in a raised position so that it can be seen or used.
  • quarter noun One of four equal parts into which something is divided.
  • sleep verb To rest in the natural state of reduced consciousness that the body needs each day.

Senses

majoittaa is used for these senses in English:

  • accommodate (transitive) To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.
  • bestow (also, reflexive) To provide (someone or oneself) with accommodation; to find quarters for (someone or oneself); to lodge, to quarter.
  • board (transitive) To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.
  • bunk To provide a bunk.
  • lodge (transitive) To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
  • put up (transitive, idiom) To house; to shelter; to take in.
  • quarter (transitive) To divide into quarters; to divide by four.
  • quarter (transitive) To range to and fro over an area; to move from point to point.

accommodate — full definition

  1. verb To provide someone with a place to stay or space to fit.
  2. verb To adjust or adapt to someone's needs or wishes.

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