convenience
noun
- quality of procedures, products and services intended to increase accessibility, save resources, and decrease frustration
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /kənˈviːnɪəns/ / /kənˈvinjəns/ / [kənˈvinjənts]
noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin convenientia, from conveniens (“suitable”), present participle of convenire (“to come together, suit”). Doublet of convenance.
- The quality of being convenient.
“Fast food is popular because of its cost and convenience.”
“Let's further think of this; / Weigh what convenience both of time and means / May fit us to our shape.”
- Any object that makes life more convenient; a helpful item.
“A pair of spectacles[…] and several other little conveniences.”
“...let Fanchette come in a hackney-coach in the morning, and I will direct the housekeeper to send you something of every thing—plate, candlesticks, lamps, damask—and you won't take it amiss if we should happen to have game or poultry come up that I put that amongst the conveniences;...”
- A convenient time.
“We will come over and begin the work at your convenience.”
- Ellipsis of public convenience (“a public lavatory”).
verb
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin convenientia, from conveniens (“suitable”), present participle of convenire (“to come together, suit”). Doublet of convenance.
- To make convenient.
“These are equally viable times and I propose we alternate between the two times in order to convenience as many people as possible.”