convenience
the quality of being convenient; suitability.
anything that saves or simplifies work, adds to one's ease or comfort, etc., as an appliance, utensil, or the like.
a convenient situation or time: at your convenience.
advantage or accommodation: a shelter for the convenience of travelers.
Chiefly British. water closet (def. 1).
easy to obtain, use, or reach; made for convenience: convenience utensils that can be discarded after use.
Origin of convenience
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How to use convenience in a sentence
Elo said he gave the FPPC bank statements detailing the illegal expenditures — various payments to convenience stores and restaurants, and mobile transfers to Barrios’s personal bank account.
Barrios Makes Dubious Claims on Investigations Into His Spending | Jesse Marx | August 25, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoIt is a vehicle that impacts actual lives thousands of miles beyond the coffee shop or convenience store.
OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder on launching a hemp-infused sparkling water brand | Rachel King | August 24, 2020 | FortuneThey’re combining the convenience of e-commerce with the immediacy of stores.
So if you think about our cycle in the US, when we first started having tech companies in tech services, we were actually pretty happy with the idea of giving up some of our data privacy in exchange for that convenience.
Podcast: Want consumer privacy? Try China | Michael Reilly | August 19, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewAs we said before, “Having certain Google Analytics data in Search Console can offer a big convenience and also help you see your data in new ways.”
Google Search Console Insights for content creators | Barry Schwartz | August 17, 2020 | Search Engine Land
Holsey admitted to killing a police officer after robbing a convenience store.
How the U.S. Justice System Screws Prisoners with Disabilities | Elizabeth Picciuto | December 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOn the afternoon Brown was killed, he had stolen a pack of cigars from a convenience store.
The Three Biggest Unanswered Questions About Ferguson | Jacob Siegel | November 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe bond between women and detachable showerheads, after all, is both a marriage of convenience and one of love.
While the two outfits have long enjoyed a marriage of convenience, they have been careful to maintain a distance from each other.
Al Qaeda’s Desperation Could Be India’s Nightmare | Tunku Varadarajan | September 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSo you make friends with this Pakistani, he shows you how to open and run convenience stores.
Awkward: This Democratic Judicial Candidate's Husband Is a White Supremacist | Gideon Resnick | August 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTKullak professes to have one, but he has so little interest in his scholars that he omits it when it suits his convenience.
Music-Study in Germany | Amy Fay(d) Excess balances may, at the convenience of each federal reserve bank, remain deposited with the gold settlement fund.
Readings in Money and Banking | Chester Arthur PhillipsFor convenience of reference I now give the figure Alphabet tabulated.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)Although we have for convenience termed the earth a flattened spheroid, it is only such in a very general sense.
Outlines of the Earth's History | Nathaniel Southgate ShalerThe castle has every modern convenience, even hot-water heating—a rare thing in England—being installed.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car | Thomas D. Murphy
British Dictionary definitions for convenience
/ (kənˈviːnɪəns) /
the state or quality of being suitable or opportune: the convenience of the hour
a convenient time or situation
at your convenience at a time suitable to you
at your earliest convenience formal as soon as possible
usefulness, comfort, or facility
an object that is particularly useful, esp a labour-saving device
euphemistic, mainly British a lavatory, esp a public one
make a convenience of to take advantage of; impose upon
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Other Idioms and Phrases with convenience
see at one's convenience.
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