accommodating

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The staff are super friendly and accommodating, and take extra care to pack each bag with napkins, silverware, and salt and pepper before sending you on your way.

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  1. adjective Helpful and obliging.

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  • Unless its successor is fully accommodating, the "delivery system" will not be replaced.
  • You've been very accommodating, and I don't think you will regret it, in the end He went out The Corporal scratched his head. —  154 - The Screaming Man
  • On this morning the buffaloes were very accommodating, and I soon had them running in a beautiful circle, when I dropped them thick and fast, until I had killed thirty-eight; which finished my run. —  The Life of Hon. William F. Cody
  • Had they been patient and accommodating, the eyes of the public would have been still hoodwinked, until habit, gradually acquired, would have rendered an expensive monarchy the most agreeable government. —  Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 2.
  • On a Thursday night the atmosphere was mellow, service friendly and accommodating, and in warm weather the enclosed back garden patio-lined with ivy-covered walls, one painted with a trompe l'oeil of the cafe-beckons.
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accommodating:   accommodate ·  accommodated ·  accommodates
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/əˈkɑmədeɪtɪŋ/
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