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facility

[fuh-sil-i-tee]

noun, plural -ties.

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.

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Often, facilities. Informal. a rest room, especially one for use by the public, as in a theater or restaurant.

freedom from difficulty, controversy, misunderstanding, etc.: facility of understanding.

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Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English facilite (< Middle French ) < Latin facilitās. See facile, -ity

Related forms

non·fa·cil·i·ty, noun, plural -ties.

o·ver·fa·cil·i·ty, noun

Can be confused: facile, facilitate, facility, felicitate.

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Example Sentences

Booker has brought to his labors here a magical facility with words.

For a new campus facility to break new ground-both educationally and sustainably-the initial program must be visionary.

But such a change, which would require the framework agreement for the facility to be amended, again risks overburdening it.

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Booker has brought to his labors here a magical facility with words.

For a new campus facility to break new ground-both educationally and sustainably-the initial program must be visionary.

But such a change, which would require the framework agreement for the facility to be amended, again risks overburdening it.

Astronauts who reach the facility aboard one of these missions typically live and work in orbit for about six months.

Fermilab isn't the only physics facility devastated by the recent budget cuts.

Alas, the great research facility was closed-due to possible anthrax contamination.

Five bird and butterfly friendly home gardens plus a visit to a raptor rehabilitation facility.

There was no rupture, meaning all the damage was contained within the facility.

The rehab facility recommended for our mother after back surgery turned out to be a snake pit.

Never go to an in-house employer provided care facility.

Because of his facility with metaphor and his easy writing style, the idea subsequently became his.

Discover advances in marine science and the latest research programs at this facility devoted to studying the undersea world.

But only in the past few years have researchers been able to move neutral particles at a distance with any facility.

It would have been a fairly simple matter for someone to finance a loan for a locker facility.

Convenient and quality amenities include a consolidated rental car facility to help you get to your preferred destination.

The facility looked legitimate, even hope-inspiring.

To some, the large-scale facility suggested a menacing ambition.

However, it doesn't make economic sense to haul the unwanted watermelons to a processing facility.

So does high voltage tramsmission lines, since every city will have it's own facility.

Normally the facility receives seven elephants in a year.

Reduced flights have taken a toll at the sparkling, refurbished facility.

Make sure they go to an appropriate disposal facility instead of into the garbage.

Opponents say proposed federal facility to study dangerous pathogens is a health.

What companies are doing to keep consumers out of the dark when a power facility fails.

The conservation center is the first museum facility in the country where the public can continuously view conservation work.

Often the amount of ethanol created is equal to or less than the amount of fossil fuels needed to run the facility.

The true-life address of that facility is even revealed.

Additional units will be located in other public rooms, including the kids-only facility.

Managing an off-campus educational facility operated by the university.

The scientists started testing other gorillas at their facility.

If there is a match, the person may be granted access to the facility.

It comes later this fall, beamed in from the courtroom near the detention facility at.

The department is housed in a state-of-the-art research and teaching facility that includes excellent space for animal research.

Why not try our job search or use the jobs by email facility above.

Although there will be no staff members on site, the facility will be monitored around the clock.

Over the next decade he twice ended up in a state treatment facility for alcoholics.

Running counter to a national trend, the medical school wants to buy a teaching facility.

Substantial facility in the accurate and automatic decoding of words.

We are working on a facility plan that should keep anyone engaged for several years to come.

Meanwhile, transporting hydrogen from its production facility has presented other difficulties.

We will build an environmentally friendly tourist facility and show it off to the world as a model of low-impact development.

Hinkle was the largest basketball facility in the country, and remained so for two decades.

Call a wood-recycling facility or your local waste-management company and ask how to recycle clean wood scraps.

Business graduates will need facility in moving among these different spheres of value and logics of action.

Wafir is gifted with an incredible musicianship and has the facility to play whichever type of instrument he chooses.

There is however a facility to tour and administrators to meet.

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World English Dictionary

facility (fəˈsɪlɪtɪ)

—n , pl -ties
1.	ease of action or performance; freedom from difficulty
2.	ready skill or ease deriving from practice or familiarity
3.	(often plural) the means or equipment facilitating the performance of an action
4.	rare easy-going disposition
5.	military an organization or building offering supporting capability
6.	(usually plural) a euphemistic word for lavatory

[C15: from Latin facilitās, from facilis easy; see facile]

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Word Origin & History

facility

early 15c., from M.Fr. facilité, from L. facilitatem, from facilis "easy" (see facile). Its sense in English moved from "genteelness" to "opportunity" (1510s), to "aptitude, ease" (1530s). Meaning "place for doing something," which makes the word so beloved of journalists

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and fuzzy writers, first recorded 1872.

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