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# facility

noun (a facility, facilities)

«facility» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A facility is a building, room or piece of equipment made for a special purpose, like a sports facility. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/facility/#m1)
2. Facilities are things provided for people to use, like toilets, showers, car parks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/facility/#m2)
3. (formal) Facility is an ability to do something easily: a facility for languages. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/facility/#m3)
4. (euphemism) "The facilities" can mean the toilets. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/facility/#m4)

### In the lessons

In everyday life and signs: school facilities, leisure facilities, "Toilet facilities available". In formal or official texts it is a stiff word for a place or building. Phrases: sports facilities, toilet facilities, the facilities, research facility.

### Examples

- The school has new sports facilities. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/facility/#x1)
- Where are the facilities? I need the loo. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/facility/#x2)
- The camp has showers and other facilities. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/facility/#x3)
- The research facility studies plants. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/facility/#x4)
- The park's facilities include a playground and toilets. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/facility/#x5)
- She has a facility for maths and solves problems fast. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/facility/#x6)
- The new swimming facility opens next month. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/facility/#x7)
- The hotel has facilities for wheelchair users. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/facility/#x8)

### Note

Plural: facilities. Formal register. "The facilities" as toilets is a polite euphemism. Trap: "facility" with "difficulty" sound alike in ending but mean opposite things (facility = ease).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «facility» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/facility/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«facility» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/facility.html) on Mova free.