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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
inconvenience
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 the month there had been a bus-strike, which had naturally caused a great deal of inconvenience.
▪ According to Mead, the Mundugumor regard children as a great inconvenience and treat them brusquely.
■ VERB
cause
▪ This could cause minor inconvenience when, for example, a family wants several hot baths in succession.
▪ This caused inconvenience and a certain amount of grumbling-what was taking so long?
▪ This idea has spawned irrational diets that defy science, cause much inconvenience, and may even threaten nutrition.
▪ Our action must reflect an attitude of genuine sorrow for causing them pain or inconvenience.
▪ I hope it didn't cause you too much inconvenience.
▪ Planning for holidays will cause disruption and inconvenience.
▪ Mere annoyance or irritation caused by inconvenience is not sufficient.
▪ There is often no provision made, or considered adequate for elderly relatives without causing gross inconvenience to all parties.
put
▪ London local authorities had delayed hearing petitioners' cases and put them to considerable inconvenience.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
put sb to trouble/inconvenience
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Having to go downtown to pay the parking ticket was a major inconvenience.
▪ We apologize for any inconvenience the strike has caused to our customers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For many who use e-mail in their businesses, the busy signals are more than an inconvenience.
▪ He points out each gesture and every act he performs only for my sake and at great inconvenience to himself.
▪ How dare I even think of writing about my own minor inconveniences, my privileged experience?
▪ It is not a question of mere inconvenience, Doctor.
▪ Obviously Club managements try to ensure that this work is carried out with the minimum of inconvenience to guests.
▪ Remember that the nurse will usually feel embarrassed by the inconvenience caused and wish to minimise it as much as possible.
▪ We apologise for the error and any inconvenience caused.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Budget cuts in bus and train services will greatly inconvenience commuters.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the time, during the war, he was somewhat inconvenienced by already having a wife.
▪ Dewatering advocate Michael Murphy is among many motorists who will be inconvenienced.
▪ Furious, Honea is screaming about how that will inconvenience the folks in Old Marana, where he lives.
▪ However, there is no doubt about who is inconvenienced most.
▪ If refused, they may feel saddened, disappointed, or inconvenienced, but their self-concept isn't shattered.
▪ It read: The Governor deeply regrets you were inconvenienced by Mr Dach, a member of his advance team.
▪ John Dunlop's filly will not be inconvenienced by the ground as she won her maiden on good to soft at Salisbury.
▪ The general consensus is that few horses should be inconvenienced by the ground.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inconvenience

Inconvenience \In`con*ven"ience\, v. t. To put to inconvenience; to incommode; as, to inconvenience a neighbor.

Inconvenience

Inconvenience \In`con*ven"ience\, n. [L. inconvenientia inconsistency: cf. OF. inconvenience.]

  1. The quality or condition of being inconvenient; lack of convenience; unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpediency; awkwardness; as, the inconvenience of the arrangement.

    They plead against the inconvenience, not the unlawfulness, . . . of ceremonies in burial.
    --Hooker.

  2. That which gives trouble, embarrassment, or uneasiness; disadvantage; anything that disturbs quiet, impedes prosperity, or increases the difficulty of action or success; as, one inconvenience of life is poverty.

    A place upon the top of Mount Athos above all clouds of rain, or other inconvenience.
    --Sir W. Raleigh.

    Man is liable to a great many inconveniences.
    --Tillotson.

    Syn: Incommodiousness; awkwardness; disadvantage; disquiet; uneasiness; disturbance; annoyance.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inconvenience

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 quality from inconvenientem (see inconvenient). Later "impropriety, unfitness; an improper act or utterance" (early 15c.). Meaning "quality of being inconvenient" is from 1650s.

inconvenience

1650s, from inconvenience (n.). Related: Inconvenienced; inconveniencing.

Wiktionary
inconvenience

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

WordNet
inconvenience

v. to cause inconvenience or discomfort to; "Sorry to trouble you, but..." [syn: trouble, put out, disoblige, discommode, incommode, bother]

inconvenience
  1. n. an inconvenient discomfort [syn: incommodiousness]

  2. a difficulty that causes anxiety [syn: troublesomeness, worriment]

  3. the quality of not being useful or convenient [ant: convenience]

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.