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Definition: Convenience |
ConvenienceNoun1. The state of being suitable or opportune; "chairs arranged for his own convenience". 2. The quality of being useful and convenient; "they offered the convenience of an installment plan". 3. A toilet that is available to the public. 4. A device that very useful for a particular job. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "convenience" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references) |
Synonyms: ConvenienceSynonyms: appliance (n), comfort station (n), contraption (n), contrivance (n), gadget (n), gismo (n), gizmo (n), public lavatory (n), public toilet (n), restroom (n), wash room (n), widget (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: inconvenience (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Leisure | Noun: leisure; convenience; spare time, spare hours, spare moments; vacant hour; time, time to spare, time on one's hands; holiday, relaxation; (rest); otium cum dignitate, ease. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | There it is, the world's first convenience store. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) And now we're asked to believe that a piece of paper will take the place of missile sites and Polaris submarines, and that an enemy who hasn't honored one solemn treaty in the history of its existence will now, for our convenience, do precisely that. (Seven Days in May; writing credit: Fletcher Knebel; Charles W. Bailey II) Convenience, ok! (Volcano; writing credit: Jerome Armstrong) | |
Lyrics | I been working at the convenience store (Fast Car; performing artist: Tracy Chapman) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Carry On at Your Convenience (1971) Marriage of Convenience (1960) A Divorce of Convenience (1921) An Engagement of Convenience (1914) A Marriage of Convenience (1912) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Lookout Point into Bear Valley, Emigrant Gap, Calif., operated by Canteen Service Station Co. and Pacific Gas and Electric, free for the convenience of motorists. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. |
Henry David Thoreau | Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout. |
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John Locke | 1690 | God, who hath given the world to men in common, hath also given them reason to make use of it to the best advantage of life, and convenience. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | |
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Health | Americans tend to eat high-fat foods, and put taste and convenience ahead of nutrition. (references) | |
Participation has been affected by factors relating to convenience, education, cost, views regarding abortion, concerns about the low sensitivity of the test, and the manner of presentation of the testing opportunity. (references) | ||
You may choose to have LASIK surgery on both eyes at the same time or to have surgery on one eye at a time. Although the convenience of having surgery on both eyes on the same day is attractive, this practice is riskier than having two separate surgeries. (references) | ||
Business | Thus, the only perceived advantage is convenience. (references) | |
Convenience stores are also expanding their sales by offering beers at competitive prices. (references) | ||
The most common franchise-modeled arrangements are found in the fast food and convenience store sub-sectors. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | United Kingdom | The law provides for the right of peaceful assembly; however, the Government routinely limits that right if it would impose a cost on public convenience. (references) |
Economic History | Guatemala | The demand for convenience services is growing rapidly. (references) |
Mexico | In total, there are more than 2,000 convenience store outlets nationwide. (references) | |
Human Rights | Pakistan | Although fettering was banned nationally in April 2000, many prisoners continue to be fettered for administrative convenience or in an attempt to solicit bribes. (references) |
Canada | At year's end, his trial was scheduled for March 2002. Four Toronto policemen were charged with manslaughter for the death of a suspect whom they beat while taking him into custody outside a convenience store in August 2000. The case is scheduled for a hearing in June 2002. The RCMP completed an inquiry into the deaths of four native men in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 2000. Two of the men were found frozen to death in January and February 2000 in an isolated area on the outskirts of Saskatoon. (references) | |
Political Rights | Jamaica | The opposition party was forced to apologize when its supporters looted the convenience store of the campaign manager for a third party candidate. (references) |
Trade | Brazil | These principles allow U.S. exporters to offer foreign buyers the convenience of a "one-stop-shop" approach. (references) |
Travel | Taiwan | Cards can be purchased from convenience stores. (references) |
Australia | Restaurants and convenience stores are commonly open for extended hours. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MEERSCHAUM, n. (Literally, seafoam, and by many erroneously supposed to be made of it.) A fine white clay, which for convenience in coloring it brown is made into tobacco pipes and smoked by the workmen engaged in that industry. The purpose of coloring it has not been disclosed by the manufacturers. There was a youth (you've heard before, This woeful tale, may be), Who bought a meerschaum pipe and swore That color it would he! He shut himself from the world away, Nor any soul he saw. He smoke by night, he smoked by day, As hard as he could draw. His dog died moaning in the wrath Of winds that blew aloof; The weeds were in the gravel path, The owl was on the roof. "He's gone afar, he'll come no more," The neighbors sadly say. And so they batter in the door To take his goods away. Dead, pipe in mouth, the youngster lay, Nut-brown in face and limb. "That pipe's a lovely white," they say, "But it has colored him!" The moral there's small need to sing -- 'Tis plain as day to you: Don't play your game on any thing That is a gamester too. Martin Bulstrode |
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Dennis Miller | We love the convenience of fast food. |
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Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | The appropriations of the last session for the defense of our sea port towns and harbors were made under expectation that a continuance of our peace would permit us to proceed in that work according to our convenience. |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | Besides the consideration that a time of peace is the time when the change can be made with most convenience and equity, it will now be aided by the experience of a recent war in which the militia bore so interesting a part. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Created for the convenience of the Government, that institution has become the scourge of the people. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | As we peer into society's future, we--you and I, and our government--must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | For decades, we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children's future for the temporary convenience of the present. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Convenience" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.44% of the time. "Convenience" is used about 896 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.44% | 891 | 8,002 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.45% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (common) | 0.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 896 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Japan | Culture Convenience Club Co., Ltd. | USA | Dairy Mart Convenience Stores Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "convenience": at your convenience ♦ at your earliest convenience ♦ convenience break ♦ convenience food ♦ convenience foods ♦ convenience store ♦ flag of convenience ♦ for convenience ♦ make a convenience of smb. ♦ marriage of convenience ♦ public convenience. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "convenience": high-convenience. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "convenience"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | voli (accommodation, timeliness), lehtësi (airiness, boon, ease, easiness, ethereality, facility, Favor, favour, lightness), komoditet (amenity, comfort, easement), komfort (cosiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فرصة مناسبة (snip, tide), ملاءمة (agreeability, appropriateness, aptness, expedience, expediency, fitness, suitability), موافقة (accession, agreement, approval, assent, consent, endorsement, fitness, indorsement, ok, okay, okey, propriety, ratification, sanction, suitability), وسائل الراحة, الوقت مناسب, شىء مناسب. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | удобство (accommodation, cosiness, ease, utility), отходно място (lavatory, toilet), облага (avail, benefit, profit), изгода (account, advantage, gain, interest, lucre, plunder, profit, spoil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 便利 (conveniences, facilitator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vymoženosti (attainment), vhodnost (appropriateness, aptness, fitness, pertinence, propriety, suitability), veřejný záchodek, výhoda (advantage, amenity, benefit, boon, good, start, use, vantage), pohodlí (amenities, comfort, ease), příhodnost (pertinence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | nærbutik (convenience store), dagligvarer (convenience goods, staple, staple convenience products, staple goods, staple products), døgnbutik (convenience store), bekvemmelighedsflag (flag of convenience, flag of necessity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | gemak (comfort). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | تسهیلات(درجمع), اسودگی (Comfort, Ease, Leisure, Relief, Repose), راحتی (Relief). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | otollisuus (opportuneness), mukavuus (comfort, comfortableness, ease). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | convenance (congruence), commodites, commodité (commodity), chose convenable, cabinet (consulting room), toilettes, bonne chance. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | annehmlichkeit (acceptableness, adoptability, advantage, amenity, pleasantness), komfort (amenities, comfort, extras, luxury). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | άνεση (comfort, coziness, ease, leisure, spaciousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | וחיות (comfort, ease), וחות זמן, וחות (amenity, comfort). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megfelelés (adequacy, analogy, correspondence, fitness, parallelism, parity), kényelem (comfort, conveniences, leisure, snugness, well being, well-being). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kesenangan (comfort, contenment, coziness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | convenienza (advantage, advisability, cheapness, expedience, expediency, fitness, gain, propriety, suitability), comodo (comfort, comfortable, comfy, convenient, cosiest, cosy, cozy, cushy, ease, easiness, easy, handy, leisure, leisured, leisurely, snug), comodit (accommodation, amenity, comfort, cosiness, coziness, ease, easiness), vantaggio (account, advantage, asset, avail, behoof, benefit, boon, forehand, gain, odds, perk, plus, profit, selling point, start, stead, usefulness, utility, vantage, virtue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 便宜 (accommodation, advantage, expedience). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | べ"ぎ (accommodation, advantage, expedience), べ"えき (benefit, profit), べ" (braid, counter for whipping, crown, dialect, discrimination, evacuation, excreta, facility, petal, speech, stools, valve), つ"う (circumstances, condition), りべ", りき (sharp-edged tool, strength), コン"ニエンス , けいべ" (simplicity), じゅうほう (firearms, guns, heavy artillery, priceless treasure, treasured article, usefulness), ちょうほう (artillery funeral salute, convenient, handy, intelligence, priceless treasure, secret information, usefulness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 편익 (conveniences). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cooieid (applicability, competency, correctness, qualification), caays (convenient time). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | bekvemmelighet (comfort). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onveniencecay conveniência (decorum, expedience, expediency, felicity, fitness), consolo (assuagement, bracket, cantilena, comfort, consolation, console, corbel, relief, solace), conforto (comfort, consolation, ease, solace, unction, well-being), comodidade (accommodation, comfort, commodity, cosiness, easiness), vantagem (advantage, avail, behoof, benefit, better, bisque, boon, boot, catch, gain, good, interest, odds, profit, purchase, utility, vantage), bem-estar (comfort, ease, good, wad, weal, welfare). (various references) confort (comfort, cosiness, joy), comoditate (comfortableness, cosiness, ease, handiness, sloth, snugness), closet cu apã, caracter avantajos, utilitate (avail, availability, expedience, expediency, service, use, usefulness, utility), profit (account, advantage, bargain, behoof, benefit, boot, Favor, favour, gain, good, grist, hand, interest, job, profit, return, use, velvet, yield), oportunitate (expedience, expediency, opportuneness), obiecte utile, interes (advantage, benefit, cause, concern, Favor, favour, interest, significance, stake), avantaj (account, advantage, avail, benefit, boon, edge, gain, good, interest, odds, plus, point, profit, vantage). (various references) уборная (chic sale, closet, dressing room, lavatory, make-up room, necessary, privy, retiring room, retiring-room, washroom, water closet, water-closet, WC =water-closet), удобство (boon, commodity), материальная выгода (lucre). (various references) goireas (apparatus, tools), gaireas , goireas. (various references) udobnost (comfort, cosiness, ease), pogodnost (fitness, pertinence, suitability). (various references) conveniencia (advisability, desirability, expedience, expediency, fitness, propriety, suitability), comodidad (accommodation, accommodativeness, amenity, boon, comfort, cosiness, ease, easement). (various references) bekvämlighet (accommodation, amenities, comfort, cosiness, ease, love of ease). (various references) yarar (account, advantage, avail, benefit, efficacy, gain, grist to the mill, stead, use, utility), uygunluk (acceptability, accordance, adaptation, adequacy, advisability, appositeness, aptitude, coherence, coherency, comeliness, compatibility, concord, conformation, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruity, correctitude, correctness, correspondence, decency, expedience, expediency, felicity, fidelity, fitness, handiness, happiness, opportuneness, pertinence, propitiousness, propriety, relevance, relevancy, seemliness, sufficiency, suitability), tuvalet (bathroom, cloakroom, closet, dress clothes, formal, John, latrine, lav, lavatory, loo, privy, rear, rest room, restroom, retiring room, toilet, washroom, wash-room, water closet), müsait oluş, kolaylık (airiness, ease, easiness, facility, simplicity, straightforwardness), kazanç (acquirement, acquisition, avails, benefit, capital, credit, earnings, gain, gainings, grist, income, increment, make, melon, proceeds, profit, receipt, revenues, spoil, takings, winnings, yield), hayatı kolaylaştıran şey, elverişlilik (sufficiency, suitability). (various references) tagaюyk (comfort). (various references) користь (account, advantage, avail, benefit, emolument, gain, good, profit, use), зручність (easement, joy), перевага (advantage, allowance, ascendant, asset, benefit, boon, bulge, capital, easement, excellence, excellency, odds, overbalance, overweight, precedence, precedency, preference, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, privilege, pull, purchase, start, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, vantage). (various references) các thứ tiện nghi lợi ích vật chất, sự tiện lợi (accommodation), sự thuận lợi (advantage, vantage), sự thích hợp đ" dùng, l m cho phù hợp với ý thích ai lợi dụng ai một cách táng tận lương tâm thích hợp với ai, hố xí lưu tâm đến sự thuận tiện của ai, điều lợi nh tiêu. (various references) cyfleuster (opportunity), hwylustod (ease, facility). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | commoda, commodum, oportunitas, oportunitatem, oportunitatibus, oportunitatis, opportunitas. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "convenience": conveniences. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "convenience": inconvenience. (additional references) | |
Words containing "convenience": inconvenienced, inconveniences. (additional references) | |
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"Convenience" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: conenience, conuenience, convanience, conveience, conveince, conveinence, conveinience, convenence, conveniance, conveniece, conveniens, conveyience, convienence, convienience, convinence, convinience, convnience. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "convenience" (pronounced kunvē"nyuns) |
| 10 | k u n v ē" n y u n s | inconvenience. |
| 4 | -y u n s | brilliance, ebullience. |
| 3 | -u n s | abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-e-i-n-n-n-o-v" | |
-2 letters: innocence. | |
-3 letters: conceive, convince. | |
-4 letters: connive, convene. | |
-5 letters: conine, evince, novice, venine. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-e-e-i-n-n-n-o-v" | |
+1 letter: conveniences. | |
+2 letters: conveniencies, inconvenience. | |
+3 letters: inconvenienced, inconveniences. | |
+4 letters: inconveniencies. | |
+5 letters: counterincentive. | |
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