facility
Often facilities .
something designed, built, installed, etc., to serve a specific function affording a convenience or service: transportation facilities;educational facilities;a new research facility.
something that permits the easier performance of an action, course of conduct, etc.: to provide someone with every facility for accomplishing a task;to lack facilities for handling bulk mail.
readiness or ease due to skill, aptitude, or practice; dexterity: to compose with great facility.
ready compliance: Her facility in organizing and directing made her an excellent supervisor.
an easy-flowing manner: facility of style.
the quality of being easily or conveniently done or performed.
Often facilities .Informal. a restroom, especially one for use by the public, as in a theater or restaurant.
freedom from difficulty, controversy, misunderstanding, etc.: facility of understanding.
Origin of facility
1Other words from facility
- non·fa·cil·i·ty, noun, plural non·fa·cil·i·ties.
- o·ver·fa·cil·i·ty, noun
Words that may be confused with facility
- facile, facilitate, facility , felicitate
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How to use facility in a sentence
There were mass closures of churches, mosques, and monasteries, and new taxes on religious facilities.
Remembering the Russian Priest Who Fought the Orthodox Church | Cathy Young | December 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPerhaps the guards at the Guantanamo Bay detention facilities will finally be allowed to smoke cubans, too.
Detention facilities would not necessarily have to keep up with U.S. prison standards.
Medicaid is required to cover people in skilled nursing facilities, that is, institutions.
Medicaid Will Give You Money for At-Home Care, but You Might Wait Years | Elizabeth Picciuto | December 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut plans to build a hotel and tourist facilities over one-third of the village have raised local preservation concerns.
This widening grasp of languages is or was within the capacity of nearly everyone born into the world—given the facilities.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation | H. G. (Herbert George) WellsWe should easily beat this in America with anything like equal facilities, and without charging the British price—£4 7s.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyReasonable facilities for receiving and forwarding traffic The subject of undue preference, which was forbiddenp.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowIf there be no facilities for stopping for the night, a driver is not negligent should he proceed through the fog.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney BollesAnother week was spent fighting over running powers, facilities, etc., and I was in the witness box again.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph Tatlow
British Dictionary definitions for facility
/ (fəˈsɪlɪtɪ) /
ease of action or performance; freedom from difficulty
ready skill or ease deriving from practice or familiarity
(often plural) the means or equipment facilitating the performance of an action
rare easy-going disposition
military an organization or building offering supporting capability
(usually plural) a euphemistic word for lavatory
Origin of facility
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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