"over-accommodate" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1970, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Papers by Command - Volume 24, page 267:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2001, Fatima Bennouiss, Moroccan Female Power Negotiation, page 27:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2003, Labour arbitration cases, page 422:",
          "text": "It is her job to neither over-accommodate nor under-accommodate the employees' needs.",
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        "Alternative form of overaccommodate",
        "To be too accommodating."
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          "ref": "1942, Ohio State University, Abstracts of Doctors' Dissertations - Volume 40, page 143:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1960, Optometric World - Volume 48, page 34:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "Alternative form of overaccommodate",
        "To misadjust the focal point of the eye."
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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2001, Fatima Bennouiss, Moroccan Female Power Negotiation, page 27:",
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          "text": "It is her job to neither over-accommodate nor under-accommodate the employees' needs.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of overaccommodate",
        "To be too accommodating."
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        }
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