facility

[ fuh-sil-i-tee ]

/ fəˈsɪl ɪ ti /

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noun, plural fa·cil·i·ties.

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 rest room, especially one for use by the public, as in a theater or restaurant.

freedom from difficulty, controversy, misunderstanding, etc.: facility of understanding.

Origin of facility

1375–1425; late Middle English facilite (< Middle French) < Latin facilitās. See facile, -ity

OTHER WORDS FROM facility

non·fa·cil·i·ty, noun, plural non·fa·cil·i·ties. o·ver·fa·cil·i·ty, noun

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH facility

facile facilitate facility felicitate

Words nearby facility

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Example sentences from the Web for facility

They put them in key positions within the facility where they can look out for their own.

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He watched the pit grow bigger every month, despite the numerous reports he wrote about the facility.

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After the federal investigation concluded, they authorized him to close the facility.

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Health workers at the facility say that is the only way to stay safe because you never know who is carrying the deadly virus.

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Nurses at the clinic say the facility cannot run a 24-hour shift due to fear of Ebola.

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Let no one with a facility for untying mental knots think that his gift would be wasted in India!

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In Brahms, however, the question does arise of facility of expression versus worthiness of expression.

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Here she received a careful education, early attaining a good knowledge of French, so as to read and speak it with facility.

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She had passed five years in captivity among the Mexicans in Sonora and had learned to speak Spanish with facility.

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Shall it be of ignorance, simplicity, and facility; or of malice and imposture?

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British Dictionary definitions for facility

facility

/ (fəˈsɪlɪtɪ) /

noun plural -ties

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

Word Origin for facility

C15: from Latin facilitās, from facilis easy; see facile

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facility

noun, plural fa·cil·i·ties.

Origin of facility

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