over-accommodate

present singular third person over-accommodates · participle present over-accommodating · participle past over-accommodated · past over-accommodated

1. Alternative form of overaccommodate.
   1. To be too accommodating.

      It is her job to neither over-accommodate nor under-accommodate the employees' needs.

      2003, Labour arbitration cases, page 422

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      I would much rather put it in the way in which we put it in our memorandum, which deals with, first of all, ascertaining what a person's housing needs are, finding a house which will accommodate him and his family — not over-accommodate or under-accommodate them — and finding one which is at a rent he can afford and which, in general terms, is in an area in which he wishes to live.

      1970, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Papers by Command - Volume 24, page 267

      There are cases where some Moroccan women are unnecessarily cautious, careful and polite, trying either to under-accommodate or over-accommodate their use of address expressions on some occasions.

      2001, Fatima Bennouiss, Moroccan Female Power Negotiation, page 27

   2. To misadjust the focal point of the eye.

      Actually, this is not generally true and one may under-accommodate or over-accommodate and still see clearly due to the depth of focus of the eye.

      1960, Optometric World - Volume 48, page 34

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      This can be done by subtracting one-half the depth of focus from the stimulus to accommodation when the subject over-accommodated and by adding one-half the depth when he under-accommodated.

      1942, Ohio State University, Abstracts of Doctors' Dissertations - Volume 40, page 143