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Facility Fəˈsɪləti Hotel Special Disabled Private Noun Bre

Word facility
WordType (noun)
Phonetic BrE / fəˈsɪləti / NAmE / fəˈsɪləti /
Example
  • sports/leisure facilities
  • conference facilities
  • shopping/banking/cooking facilities
  • the hotel has special facilities for welcoming disabled people.
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facility

(noun)BrE / fəˈsɪləti / NAmE / fəˈsɪləti /
  1. buildings, services, equipment, etc. that are provided for a particular purpose
    • sports/leisure facilities
    • conference facilities
    • shopping/banking/cooking facilities
    • The hotel has special facilities for welcoming disabled people.
    • All rooms have private facilities (= a private bathroom).
  2. a special feature of a machine, service, etc. that makes it possible to do something extra
    • a bank account with an overdraft facility
    • a facility for checking spelling
    • This facility allows the user to input text in various forms onto the screen and thus create a true newspaper page.
  3. a place, usually including buildings, used for a particular purpose or activity
    • the world’s largest nuclear waste facility
    • a new health care facility
  4. a natural ability to learn or do something easily
    • She has a facility for languages.
    • He plays the piano with surprising facility.

    Extra Examples

    • A doctor visited the facility and found deplorable conditions.
    • All bedrooms offer private facilities.
    • Facilities include a large indoor pool, jacuzzi and sauna.
    • He played with great facility.
    • He spent 90 days at the county’s local correctional facility.
    • I made full use of the computing facilities.
    • She showed an amazing facility for mind-reading.
    • She trains with the team at their practice facility.
    • The 100 000 square-foot facility houses labs for NASA’s research.
    • The archive offers a central facility for cataloguing and indexing data.
    • The cheque book facility allows for a minimum withdrawal of £200.
    • The communal facilities were in a bad state.
    • The company expects to open its facility by late September.
    • The device has a facility for storing any sound you like.
    • The hotel provides excellent facilities for children.
    • The old facility is now used for storage of dry products.
    • The railway station was criticized for its lack of disabled facilities.
    • The report warns that there are no back-up facilities if the reprocessing plant breaks down.
    • The school has no facilities for the teaching of music.
    • The software’s ‘list’ facility allows users to compile their own list.
    • The toilets and other communal facilities were in a shocking state.
    • We are looking to upgrade the existing facilities.
    • a hotel with only basic facilities
    • a mental health facility
    • a new facility for military training
    • a production facility located in New Mexico
    • a temporary storage facility for blood samples
    • a water treatment facility
    • hospitals, schools and other major community facilities
    • plans to renovate an existing facility
    • prisoners in state and federal facilities
    • residents of long-term care facilities
    • to improve access to essential facilities
    • training and other support facilities

    Word Origin

    • early 16th cent. (denoting the means or unimpeded opportunity for doing something): from French facilité or Latin facilitas, from facilis ‘easy’, from facere ‘do, make’.
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