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facility
[ fuh-sil-i-tee ]
noun
- 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.
facility
/ əˈɪɪɪ /
noun
- 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
Other Word Forms
- ԴDz·ڲ···ٲ noun plural nonfacilities
- ··ڲ···ٲ noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of facility1
Example Sentences
After using the term in news conferences, meetings and conversations around the Lakers’ facility all season, Redick and the coaches finally decided to define to the team in a meeting.
But statistics show that children are staying at the facilities longer.
Under the Food Safety Modernization Act, food facilities are required to have food safety plans outlining how they will combat any contamination risks or other food safety hazards.
It said in a statement: "The building was struck due to assessed enemy presence and was not identified by the forces as a UN facility."
The council conceded that they had a legal obligation to provide male and female facilities at the Court of Session in Edinburgh on Wednesday.
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