Convenience

/kənˈviːnɪəns/ · noun

Meaning

The quality of being convenient..

Definitions by Sense

1. The quality of being convenient.
2. Any object that makes life more convenient; a helpful item.
3. A convenient time.
4. (chiefly British) Ellipsis of public convenience (“a public lavatory”).
5. To make convenient.

Example Sentences

Fast food is popular because of its cost and convenience.

Let's further think of this; / Weigh what convenience both of time and means / May fit us to our shape.

Thus first Necessity invented stools, / Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs[…]

A pair of spectacles[…] and several other little conveniences.

...let Fanchette come in a hackney-coach in the morning, and I will direct the housekeeper to send you something of every thing—plate, candlesticks, lamps, damask—and you won't take it amiss if we should happen to have game or poultry come up that I put that amongst the conveniences;...

There was a bookshelf with a number of tattered volumes, and a few conveniences in the way of cupboards, which appeared to have been contrived out of a packing case by a hasty man, with a blunt axe.

It's over there, it's over there / My building has every convenience / It's gonna make life easy for me

We will come over and begin the work at your convenience.

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Word Forms

• conveniences
• conveniencing
• convenienced

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