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{
"term": "facility",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "buildings, services, equipment, etc. that are provided for a particular purpose",
"sensetop": "facilities for somebody/something",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "**leisure/sports facilities**"
},
{
"text": "medical/recreational/educational facilities"
},
{
"text": "shopping/banking/cooking facilities"
},
{
"text": "Recycling **facilities **are **provided**."
},
{
"text": "The school is **upgrading** its outdoor play **facilities**."
},
{
"text": "They provide **facilities management** services to corporations, hospitals and universities."
},
{
"text": "There are not enough facilities for families with young children.",
"contextForm": "facilities for somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "All rooms have **private facilities** *(= a private bathroom)*."
},
{
"text": "Facilities include a large indoor pool, jacuzzi and sauna."
},
{
"text": "I made full use of the computing facilities."
},
{
"text": "The communal facilities were in a bad state."
},
{
"text": "The hotel provides excellent facilities for children."
},
{
"text": "The hotel has special facilities for welcoming disabled people."
},
{
"text": "There are childcare facilities on site."
},
{
"text": "Residents complain about a lack of healthcare facilities in the area."
},
{
"text": "The airport plans to improve internet facilities in its terminals."
},
{
"text": "The new headquarters house offices, restaurants, and conference facilities."
},
{
"text": "The school has no facilities for the teaching of music."
},
{
"text": "The toilets and other communal facilities were in a shocking state."
},
{
"text": "We are looking to upgrade the existing facilities."
},
{
"text": "The report warns that there are no back-up facilities if the reprocessing plant breaks down."
},
{
"text": "a hotel with only basic facilities"
},
{
"text": "hospitals, schools and other major community facilities"
},
{
"text": "to improve access to essential facilities"
},
{
"text": "training and other support facilities"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["excellent", "first-class", "good"],
"verb + facility": ["have", "offer", "provide"],
"facility + verb": ["be available", "exist", "include something"],
"facility + noun": ["management", "manager"],
"preposition": ["facility for"],
"phrases": ["a range of facilities"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a place, usually including buildings, used for a particular purpose or activity",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the world’s largest nuclear waste facility"
},
{
"text": "a new healthcare facility"
},
{
"text": "a production/manufacturing/research/storage facility"
},
{
"text": "a detention/correctional facility *(= a prison)*"
},
{
"text": "A doctor visited the facility and found deplorable conditions."
},
{
"text": "She trains with the team at their practice facility."
},
{
"text": "The 100 000 square-foot facility houses labs for NASA's research."
},
{
"text": "The company expects to open its facility by late September."
},
{
"text": "The old facility is now used for storage of dry products."
},
{
"text": "He spent 90 days at the county's local correctional facility."
},
{
"text": "residents of long-term care facilities"
},
{
"text": "prisoners in state and federal facilities"
},
{
"text": "plans to renovate an existing facility"
},
{
"text": "a water treatment facility"
},
{
"text": "a temporary storage facility for blood samples"
},
{
"text": "a production facility located in New Mexico"
},
{
"text": "a new facility for military training"
},
{
"text": "a mental health facility"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["large", "50 000-square-foot", "etc."],
"verb + facility": ["design", "build", "construct"],
"facility + verb": ["be located", "house"],
"preposition": ["facility for"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a special feature of a machine, service, etc. that makes it possible to do something extra",
"sensetop": "facility for doing something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a bank account with an overdraft facility"
},
{
"text": "This facility allows the user to input text in various forms onto the screen and thus create a true newspaper page."
},
{
"text": "a facility for checking spelling",
"contextForm": "facility for doing something"
},
{
"text": "The archive offers a central facility for cataloguing and indexing data."
},
{
"text": "The device has a facility for storing any sound you like."
},
{
"text": "The software's ‘list’ facility allows users to compile their own list."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["central", "backup", "support"],
"verb + facility": ["have", "offer", "provide"],
"facility + verb": ["allow something", "allow for something"],
"preposition": ["facility for"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "a natural ability to learn or do something easily",
"sensetop": "facility (for something)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She has a facility for languages."
},
{
"text": "He plays the piano with surprising facility."
},
{
"text": "He played with great facility."
},
{
"text": "She showed an amazing facility for mind-reading."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["amazing", "great"],
"verb + facility": ["have", "show"],
"preposition": ["with facility", "facility for"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/fəˈsɪləti/",
"audio": "fa/facility/facility__gb_3.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/fəˈsɪləti/",
"audio": "fa/facility/facility__us_4.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "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’."
}