facility
nun /fə'sɪləti/
1
facilities [plural] rooms, equipment, or services that are provided for a particular purpose.
buildings, services, equipment, etc. that are provided for a particular purpose.
the buildings, equipment and services provided for a particular purpose.
something such as a room or piece of equipment that is provided at a place for people to use.
an area or building used for a particular purpose.
Facilities are buildings, pieces of equipment, or services that are provided for a particular purpose.
All rooms have private facilities (=private bathroom and toilet).
The hotel has its own pool and leisure facilities.
toilet facilities
childcare facilities.
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).
shopping facilities.
medical facilities.
sports facilities.
The hotel has excellent leisure facilities.
There are plans to improve toilet facilities at the station.
Does the company offer any facilities for employees with young children?
He works at the company’s manufacturing facility in Texas.
What recreational facilities are now available?...
The problem lies in getting patients to a medical facility as soon as possible.
2
a special part of a piece of equipment or a system which makes it possible to do something.
a special feature of a machine, service, etc. that makes it possible to do sth extra.
a special feature of a particular tool, system etc.
A facility is something such as an additional service provided by an organization or an extra feature on a machine which is useful but not essential.
Is there a call-back facility on this phone?
a bank account with an overdraft facility.
Do you have an overdraft facility at your bank?
have the facility to do something
The software has the facility to produce high-quality graphics displays.
It is very useful to have an overdraft facility...
One of the new models has the facility to reproduce speech as well as text.
3
a place or building used for a particular activity or industry, or for providing a particular type of service.
something (such as a building or large piece of equipment) that is built for a specific purpose.
something that makes an action, operation, or activity easier - usually plural
a place, usually including buildings, used for a particular purpose or activity.
a place, especially including buildings, where a particular activity happens.
a top-secret research facility.
the finest indoor sports facility in the US.
a large manufacturing facility
a new sewage-treatment facility
The injured child was rushed to a medical facility. [=a hospital]
a correctional facility [=a prison]
The resort offers a wide range of facilities for young and old alike.
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.
the world's largest nuclear waste facility.
a new health care facility.
a nuclear research facility
a military facility
a new sports facility.
4
a natural ability to do something easily and well. SYN talent
skill and ease in doing something.
a natural ability to learn or do sth easily.
an ability, feature or quality.
a natural ability to do something well.
If you have a facility for something, for example learning a language, you find it easy to do.
facility for
She has an amazing facility for languages.
He had a great facility for writing.
noncount He had great facility with words.
She handled the crisis with facility.
She has a facility for languages.
He plays the piano with surprising facility.
His facility for languages is astonishing.
a phone with a memory facility.
He has a facility for languages.
He and Marcia shared a facility for languages...
Smell is a very basic sense but humans have lost much of the facility to use it properly.
5
the facilities American English spoken the toilet, used to be polite.
a polite way of saying ‘bathroom’ or ‘toilet’
Excuse me, I have to use the facilities.
The facilities are at the end of the corridor.
All the rooms have private facilities.
