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convenience

UK/kənˈviːnɪəns/US/kənˈvinjəns/
nounB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #3,773 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: conveniences

Convenience is the quality of being easy and suiting your needs. At your convenience, for convenience, a convenience store.

At your earliest convenience is the polite formula meaning as soon as you reasonably can. A public convenience is a British term for a public lavatory, which is a euphemism nobody now notices.

David Osipov 0000 0005 1802 960X 0009-0005-2713-9242 · CC BY 4.0

Definitions of convenience

  1. 1nounconvenienceThe quality of being easy and suiting your needs.B2

    “For your convenience, the hotel runs a shuttle bus to the airport.”

convenience is a quality.

Where it comes from

Latin convenientia comes from convenire, to come together or suit.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *gʷem-

  2. Latin

    convenientia

  3. English, today

    convenience

Built from

  • conveniens · Latin — suitable
  • convenire · Latin — to come together, suit

Borrowed from Latin convenientia, from conveniens (“suitable”), present participle of convenire (“to come together, suit”). a doublet of convenance.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

convenience in the wild

  • In some countries, convenience stores have long shopping hours and some remain open 24 hours.

    Convenience store

  • Owned by the Southland Corporation, the chain expanded its convenience stores and renamed them Tote'm Stores between 1928 and 1946.

    7-Eleven

  • In 1973, Ito-Yokado, a Japanese supermarket chain, signed a franchise agreement with the Southland Corporation to develop 7-Eleven convenience stores in Japan.

    7-Eleven

  • The term "flag of convenience" has been used since the 1950s.

    Flag of convenience

  • Casey's is the third-largest convenience store chain in the United States, after 7-Eleven and Circle K/Alimentation Couche-Tard, and the largest that is American-owned.

    Casey's

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the conveniens family

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