facility

[ fuh-sil-i-tee ]

/ fəˈsɪl ɪ ti /

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noun, plural fa·cil·i·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.

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.

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Origin of facility

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

OTHER 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.
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Perhaps the guards at the Guantanamo Bay detention facilities will finally be allowed to smoke cubans, too.
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Detention facilities would not necessarily have to keep up with U.S. prison standards.
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Medicaid is required to cover people in skilled nursing facilities, that is, institutions.
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But plans to build a hotel and tourist facilities over one-third of the village have raised local preservation concerns.
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This widening grasp of languages is or was within the capacity of nearly everyone born into the world—given the facilities.
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We should easily beat this in America with anything like equal facilities, and without charging the British price—£4 7s.
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Reasonable 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 Tatlow
If there be no facilities for stopping for the night, a driver is not negligent should he proceed through the fog.
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Another week was spent fighting over running powers, facilities, etc., and I was in the witness box again.
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British Dictionary definitions for facility

facility

/ (fəˈsɪlɪtɪ) /

noun plural -ties

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

Word Origin for facility

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

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