facility

[ fuh-sil-i-tee ]

noun

, plural fa·cil·i·ties.

1. Often facilities.
   1. something designed, built, installed, etc., to serve a specific function affording a convenience or service:

      transportation facilities;

      educational facilities;

      a new research facility.

   2. 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.

2. readiness or ease due to skill, aptitude, or practice; dexterity:

   to compose with great facility.

3. ready compliance:

   Her facility in organizing and directing made her an excellent supervisor.

4. an easy-flowing manner:

   facility of style.

5. the quality of being easily or conveniently done or performed.
6. Often facilities. Informal. a restroom, especially one for use by the public, as in a theater or restaurant.
7. freedom from difficulty, controversy, misunderstanding, etc.:

   facility of understanding.

facility

/ fəˈsɪlɪtɪ /

noun

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. See lavatory
   usually plural a euphemistic word for lavatory

Other Words From

• non·fa·cil·i·ty noun plural nonfacilities
• o·ver·fa·cil·i·ty noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of facility¹

First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English facilite, from Middle French or directly from Latin facilitās; facile, -ity

Word History and Origins

Origin of facility¹

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

Example Sentences

If the rapid response test comes back positive and the PCR test result hasn’t been returned yet, the student would be put into an isolation facility, according to a university spokesperson.

From Fortune

It’s as urgent as getting these manufacturing facilities up.

From Washington Post

The event featured maskless supporters standing shoulder-to-shoulder inside the industrial facility.

From Washington Post

It says 495 of the hospitals and other facilities participating in the survey earned a top score of 100 on their LGBTQ-related policies and practices.

From Washington Blade

Next up, Corning is trying 5G indoors at some of its own facilities.

From Fortune

They put them in key positions within the facility where they can look out for their own.

From The Daily Beast

He watched the pit grow bigger every month, despite the numerous reports he wrote about the facility.

From The Daily Beast

After the federal investigation concluded, they authorized him to close the facility.

From The Daily Beast

Opened in Sept. 2002, this “poorly managed” detention facility was the second site opened by the CIA after the 9/11 attacks.

From The Daily Beast

Kocurek became especially frustrated with a commercial waste facility in Jim Wells County.

From The Daily Beast

We must have motif first, then technique to adapt and adjust expression and to develop facility in the active agents.

From Project Gutenberg

The object of this practise is to attain facility in manipulating the elements while maintaining the smooth quality of the tone.

From Project Gutenberg

The facility of manufacture and cheapness of those engines caused them to be much used in the mines, and also elsewhere.

From Project Gutenberg

His letter of a few months before reveals the facility with which he moulded the steam-engine to his requirements.

From Project Gutenberg

The fibre can be separated with great facility, though firmly attached at one end to the parent rock.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• accommodation
• amenity
• equipment
• material
• resource
• tool