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Answer for the clue "Difficulty finding somewhere to go ", 13 letters:
inconvenience

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Word definitions for inconvenience in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The quality of being inconvenient. 2 Something that is not convenient, something that bothers. vb. to bother; to discomfort

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "harm, damage, danger," also "a harmful incident, misfortune, affliction," from Old French inconvenience "misfortune, calamity; impropriety" (Modern French inconvenance ), from Late Latin inconvenientia "lack of consistency, incongruity," noun of ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an inconvenient discomfort [syn: incommodiousness ] a difficulty that causes anxiety [syn: troublesomeness , worriment ] the quality of not being useful or convenient [ant: convenience ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE great ▪ It is no great inconvenience to help him, either of you, I assure you. ▪ He points out each gesture and every act he performs only for my sake and at great inconvenience to himself. ▪ From 10 to 23 of ...

Usage examples of inconvenience.

They would have to ask the Stanhope to keep the village and the apes for them, which would make it a major inconvenience if they chose to stay in a different hotel.

This is a major inconvenience, but Podmaster Nau regards disobedience on this point as treason.

And inasmuch as the duties are paid in Acapulco on those who are sold there, because of the inconvenience of paying them in Manila, we order that the president and auditors of our royal Audiencia of Filipinas provide that it be so observed and executed.

At first sight we should be inclined to think that these little swellings near the tips of the toes would be rather an inconvenience to the anolis, by impeding its movements.

Jones: and as I know the inconvenience which attends the want of ready money, I have added L1000 in specie.

Marg, though the implanted blastocyst that she was host-mothering could scarcely have been causing her any inconvenience yet.

It occurs to me that I was perhaps the only person in Boca Grande inconvenienced by the collapse of the Progreso causeway.

Beyond the Inconvenience and Expense of such a Move, it would be Tantamount to declaring open War with the Browns, and I think that not prudent, not if I must be frequently away from home, leaving my Family unprotected.

Instead the mild little inventor, with his spools and his pulleys, his bits of wire and his measureless reaches of string, pursued his peaceful though tortuous way, and if his abode became transformed into a magnified cobweb only himself and Celestina were inconvenienced thereby.

To Celestina inconvenience was second nature since from the moment of her birth it had been her lot in life.

She had never imagined, w hen the requisition request came, that a simple clonal pregnancy would entail so many inconveniences!

He liked Miss Dunstable, and was gratified by her friendship, and did not think of asking himself whether she had a right to put him to trouble and inconvenience.

Andi demanded grouchily, cursing under her breath at the inconvenience, then deciding with a little, acid smile that the time should be billed to the stolen roses.

That is to say, in his obligation to look in on her and see that she was not inconvenienced by one thing and another such as this execrable khamseen which fortunately Tunisia did not often experience, as it was usually found in Algerie and Maroc and other vaguely uncouth areas.

They caught microparasites, which were the inevitable inconvenience of strange worlds: native mites who had already learned to feast on the leaky joint sleeves and porous sheaths of the podia.