facility

Definitions

1. The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc.
   countable, uncountable
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3. A building or campus specially designed for a specific purpose, such as incarceration, military use, or scientific experimentation.
   countable, uncountable
4. faˈcilities the means to do something. There are facilities for cooking. gerief, fasiliteit تَسْهيلات приспособления meios vybavení die Einrichtung udstyr; anlæg ανέσειςinstalaciones vahendid وسایل؛ امکانات välineet installations מִתקָנִים सुविधा sredstva, oprema, uređaji lehetőség(ek) sarana aðstaða attrezzature*, mezzi* 設備 시설 įrenginiai iespējas; izdevība kemudahan gelegenhedenutstyr, hjelpemidler, innretninger środki, możliwość اسانتيا possibilidades/meios con­di­ţii; ustensile, acce­sorii...
5. A building or campus specially designed for a specific purpose, such as incarceration, military use, or scientific experimentation
6. The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty; simplicity.
   countable, uncountable
7. facilidad; instalación; [conveniences] pl. comodidades; servicios en general.
8. The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty; simplicity
9. Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent.
   countable, uncountable
10. Ease in moving, acting, or doing: "a soldier who was expected to be able to fell a tree ... or build a bridge with equal facility" (Bruce I. Gudmundsson).
11. Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent
12. Clipping of credit facility.
    abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable
13. often facilitiesa. A building, room, array of equipment, or a number of such things, designed to serve a particular function: hospitals and other health care facilities.
14. Clipping of credit facility
15. A toilet.
    Canada, US, countable, in-plural, uncountable
16. facilities Informal A restroom or public toilet.
    Informal
17. A condition of mental weakness less than idiocy, but enough to make a person easily persuaded to do something against their better interest.
    countable, uncountable
18. ease of action or performance; freedom from difficulty
19. Affability.
    countable, dated, uncountable
20. ready skill or ease deriving from practice or familiarity
21. (often plural) the means or equipment facilitating the performance of an action
    often plural
22. rare easy-going disposition
    rare
23. (Military) military an organization or building offering supporting capability
    military

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Examples

“Transport⟳ facilities in Bangkok are not sufficient to prevent⟳ frequent traffic collapses during rush⟳ hour.”

“As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities.”

“Clytomachus affirmed, that he could never understand⟳ by the writings of Carneades, what opinion he was of. Why hath Epicurus interdicted facility unto his Sectaries?”

“Since I had started to break⟳ down all my writing and get⟳ rid⟳ of all facility and try⟳ to make⟳ instead of describe⟳, writing had been wonderful to do. But it was very difficult, and I did not know⟳ how I would ever write⟳ anything as long as a novel. It often took me a full morning of work⟳ to write⟳ a paragraph.”

“The facility she shows in playing the violin is unrivalled.”

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