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# facility

«facility» in Mova's school dictionary: **a building, room or piece of equipment made for a special…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a facility, facilities)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A facility is a building, room or piece of equipment made for a special purpose, like a sports facility. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/facility/#m3)

4) (euphemism) "The facilities" can mean the toilets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/facility/#m4)

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

### In the corpora

- ["The facilities" is a polite word for the toilet, as in "Where are the facilities?"](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/6-toilet-words/20/)
- ["Correctional facility" is the US official word for a prison.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/27-crime-prison-and-police/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «facility» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/facility/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.