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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
convenience
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
convenience food
▪ We eat too little fresh food, relying instead on convenience foods.
convenience store
marriage of convenience
public convenience
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
administrative
▪ The change in the figures appeared to be due to things like administrative convenience.
▪ But this bogus community, spirited up to serve administrative convenience, does not exist.
▪ Does he agree that access to justice is more important than administrative convenience?
▪ Prices in such circumstances become an administrative convenience or merely irrelevant.
great
▪ For instance ice which is formed on salt water is substantially fresh, to the great convenience of Polar explorers.
▪ Advantages of the nondairy toppings over whipping cream are lower fat content, lower cost per serving, and greater convenience.
▪ Used properly, bothies are places of great convenience and delight, but do remember a couple of important points.
▪ The lorry, with its greater flexibility and convenience to farmers and country shippers, was about to take over.
▪ And a more frequent service meant greater passenger convenience.
modern
▪ Contrary to modem popular opinion these were splendid ships with excellent accommodation and many modern conveniences for both crew and passengers.
▪ I don't want to give up modern conveniences such as my computer or garage door opener.
▪ The lack of modern conveniences does not reflect an unusual form of asceticism.
▪ The nuns do not, as a matter of religious conviction, use such modern conveniences, but city bureaucrats were implacable.
▪ Like Povoado de Jose Valerio, most of the villages know no modern conveniences.
▪ We can accommodate anywhere from 20 to more than 300 people, with all the modern conveniences.
▪ The cell phone has turned into more than a modern day convenience, it is a status symbol.
public
▪ It was used as a public convenience for more than a hundred years.
▪ The woman stepped lightly away on her high-heeled, patent leather boots to her basket-work Mini parked beside the public convenience.
■ NOUN
food
▪ It's a good buy, particularly if you frequently heat convenience foods.
▪ To conclude this discussion of convenience foods, two points can be made.
▪ This vitamin loss is a reason why those expensive ready-made and overcooked convenience foods are not as nourishing.
▪ They selected 166 convenience foods for cost comparisons with home prepared counterparts.
▪ If you live a fast, hectic life and you eat mostly ready-made convenience foods, try to consider some other alternatives.
▪ They reported that quality-wise, the convenience foods did not differ significantly from the home-prepared items.
▪ The loveliest remarks on this phenomenon come from the corporate convenience food conveyancers.
▪ Cooks around the world love a good convenience food.
store
▪ Police spoke of a benign new law enforcement tactic no more intrusive than a video camera at a convenience store.
▪ Price these items in two supermarkets and a convenience store.
▪ At a convenience store / gas station in Manvel, several people seek refuge from the storms.
▪ Soon, the station will complete a new, larger convenience store.
▪ Craig comes in from his job at a convenience store.
▪ Few businesses larger than convenience stores planned to open today.
▪ The call was traced to a pay phone at a convenience store.
■ VERB
suit
▪ Services should be run to suit the convenience of customers, not of staff.
use
▪ The nuns do not, as a matter of religious conviction, use such modern conveniences, but city bureaucrats were implacable.
▪ It was used as a public convenience for more than a hundred years.
▪ Please make copies of this so that you may use them at your convenience in the future to return information to the Council.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Being able to pay bills over the Internet is a real convenience.
▪ People are willing to pay higher rent for the convenience of living near mass transit.
▪ The new Accord station wagon offers safety and convenience.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He sits in front of a convenience store and asks customers for quarters.
▪ In these experiments, humans were used for convenience, because they're good at following directions.
▪ No inmate, however, was to be confined at night without being provided with a bed and other conveniences.
▪ Some people might be tempted by convenience.
▪ The convenience of the high trees!
▪ The D metric is a computational convenience.
▪ They selected 166 convenience foods for cost comparisons with home prepared counterparts.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Convenience

Convenience \Con*ven"ience\ (?; 106), Conveniency \Con*ven"ien*cy\, n. [L. convenientia agreement, fitness. See Convenient.]

  1. The state or quality of being convenient; fitness or suitableness, as of place, time, etc.; propriety.

    Let's further think of this; Weigh what convenience both of time and means May fit us to our shape.
    --Shak.

    With all brief and plain conveniency, Let me have judgment.
    --Shak.

  2. Freedom from discomfort, difficulty, or trouble; commodiousness; ease; accommodation.

    Thus necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow chairs.
    --Cowper.

    We are rather intent upon the end of God's glory than our own conveniency.
    --Jer. Taylor.

  3. That which is convenient; that which promotes comfort or advantage; that which is suited to one's wants; an accommodation.

    A pair of spectacles and several other little conveniences.
    --Swift.

  4. A convenient or fit time; opportunity; as, to do something at one's convenience.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
convenience

late 14c., "agreement, conformity," from Latin convenientia "meeting together, agreement, harmony," from conveniens, present participle of convenire (see convene). Meaning "suitable, adapted to existing conditions" is from c.1600; that of "personally not difficult" is from 1703.

Wiktionary
convenience

n. 1 the quality of being suitable, useful or convenient 2 anything that makes for an easier life 3 a convenient time, especially in the phrase ''at one's convenience'' 4 (context chiefly British English) a public toilet

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WordNet
convenience

  1. n. the state of being suitable or opportune; "chairs arranged for his own convenience"

  2. the quality of being useful and convenient; "they offered the convenience of an installment plan" [ant: inconvenience]

  3. a toilet that is available to the public [syn: public toilet, comfort station, public convenience, public lavatory, restroom, toilet facility, wash room]

  4. a device that is very useful for a particular job [syn: appliance, contraption, contrivance, gadget, gizmo, gismo, widget]

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Wikipedia
Convenience

Convenient procedures, products and services are those intended to increase ease in accessibility, save resources (such as time, effort and energy) and decrease frustration. Convenience is a relative concept, and depends on context. For example, automobiles were once considered a convenience, yet today are regarded as a normal part of life.

Service conveniences are those that save shoppers time or effort, and includes variables such as credit availability and extended store hours. Service convenience pertains to the facilitation of selling both goods and services, and combinations of the two.

Convenience goods are widely distributed products that "require minimal time and physical and mental effort to purchase."

Convenience (horse)

Convenience (foaled May 29, 1968 in Florida) was a Thoroughbred racing mare. She was sired by Fleet Nasrullah, a son of Nasrullah, and her dam was Moment of Truth. Bred by Caper Hill Farm, Inc. and raced by Glen Hill Farm, she was trained by Willard Proctor.

During her racing career, Convenience won fifteen of thirty-five starts and retired with earnings of $648,933. Among her wins, Convenience twice won the Grade 1 Vanity Handicap and in 1972, under jockey Jerry Lambert defeated Typecast in a $250,000 winner-take-all match race in front of 53,575 fans at Hollywood Park Racetrack.

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Usage examples of "convenience".

Klein, a physiologist, before the Royal Commission, testified that he had no regard at all for the sufferings of the animals he used, and never used anaesthetics, except for didactic purposes, unless necessary for his own convenience, and that he had no time for thinking what the animal would feel or suffer.

The features and benefits of cellular phones for the businessperson include convenience, time management, cost savings, accessibility and service.

The practice was made possible by a canon which had been enacted for the convenience of foreign, not domestic, cardinals, but the latter took advantage of it during long periods of interregnum.

Many of these chains were predicated on the assumption that consumers responded to the convenience of the carryout, quick-service foods, rather than just to hamburgers.

Kraal affiliates carried duras plants on their ships, it was for her own convenience as a web-being.

For convenience, I recognize a Holiest Lama named Phags-pa, whose lamasarai is at the city of Shigat-Se, so that is where I have located the capital.

Goblin Dreams Most county fairs have horse races in addition to livestock shows, carnivals and kootch dancers, so most fairgrounds have locker rooms and showers under their grandstands, for the convenience of jockeys and sulky drivers.

Though he knew of only two Ladders there, to Ambrai and to Shellinkroth, for governmental convenience Ryka must have had Ladders to all the Shirs.

First the minibus driver, who gave me the lamest directions on earth, then the kid behind the cash register of a convenience mart, and finally an old guy sitting outside a barber shop.

Gangplank entrance was forward for convenience, whereas most landplanes were entered aft of the wing trailing edge.

Such rings are common in Gorean cities, in public places, and serve the convenience of masters in tethering their slaves.

Oxidation is performed with greater convenience by wet methods, using reagents, such as nitric acid, which contain a large proportion of oxygen loosely held.

In the meantime, the parties out on the dance floor find they cannot rumba with any convenience unless Brogan Wilmington is removed from their space, so a couple of waiters pick Brogan up and carry him away and Ambrose notices that the beautiful who slugs Brogan with the lobster Newburg now seems to be crying.

But with poorer ores the accuracy of the assay, as well as convenience in working, is much increased by working in a crucible with larger charges.

Besides these settlements along the sea-coast of the peninsula, and on the banks of the Ganges, the English East India company possess certain inland fac tories and posts for the convenience and defence of their commerce, either purchased of the nabobs and rajahs, or conquered in the course of the war.