adapt for

adapt (something) for (something)

To change or adjust something for a new or different purpose. I heard that the studio is adapting that book for a movie. Have they adapted the building for wheelchair accessibility?
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

adapt something for something

to change or alter something for use with something else. Has this furnace been adapted for natural gas?
See also: adapt
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • adapt
  • adapt (something) for (something)
  • not a bother on (someone)
  • accommodate (oneself) to (something)
  • accommodate oneself to
  • in the swim
  • in the swim of things
  • in(to) the swim (of things)
  • be in the swim (of things)
  • focus on (someone or something)
References in periodicals archive
* adapt for normalization by keeping the activity as close to the standard version as possible.