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| accommodate |
If a hotel room accommodates four people, it has room for four people. Four people can use the space comfortably. If an elevator can accommodate twelve people, it means that it can hold twelve people. [1/3 definitions] |
| cage |
a similar structure that carries or protects people, such as an elevator car or a bank cashier's cage. [1/4 definitions] |
| car |
an enclosure for carrying people, such as an elevator car. [1/3 definitions] |
| elevator |
a grain storage building used to lift and pour out grain; grain elevator. [1/2 definitions] |
| hoist |
ropes and pulleys, or an elevator, used for lifting heavy or large loads. [1/2 definitions] |
| pack1 |
If people pack into an elevator, they crowd in together very tightly. [1/13 definitions] |
| shaft |
A shaft is a space that people can travel up and down in, like when they go down into a mine or up in an elevator car. [1/5 definitions] |
| user |
A user is a person who uses something, especially in a repeated way. A library user, for example, is a person who goes to the library a lot and takes out books. A user of an elevator is a person who often takes the elevator to go up or down in a building. [1/2 definitions] |
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