EGAVE

facility

Academic Word List, sublist 5.

About 15.06 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
    Transport facilities in Bangkok are not sufficient to prevent frequent traffic collapses during rush hour.
  2. noun A building or campus specially designed for a specific purpose, such as incarceration, military use, or scientific experimentation.
  3. noun The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty; simplicity.
  4. noun Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent.
    The facility she shows in playing the violin is unrivalled.
  5. noun Clipping of credit facility.
  6. noun A toilet.
  7. noun A condition of mental weakness less than idiocy, but enough to make a person easily persuaded to do something against their better interest.
  8. noun Affability.

Similar words

privy deftness adroitness can adeptness proficiency readiness installation quickness technique

Often followed by

in for of and with is to that was

Word family

facilitate facilitated facilitates facilitating facilitation facilitator facilitators facilities

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