| 单词 | at one's convenience |
| 释义 | > as lemmasat one's convenience 6. The quality of being personally convenient; ease or absence of trouble in use or action; material advantage or absence of disadvantage; commodity, personal comfort; saving of trouble. Hence at one's convenience, to suit or await one's convenience, marriage of convenience, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > convenience > [noun] > personal convenience avenantc1400 easementc1400 commodity1493 convenientness1579 conveniencya1628 convenience1679 convenancy1769 the world > action or operation > advantage > an opportunity > [noun] > opportunity > convenient to a person conveniency1649 convenience1890 1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ix. 154 The best forming of all Members in a Building for the..Convenience of the intended Inhabitant. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 164. ¶3 His intended Son-in-Law, who had all along regarded this Alliance rather as a Marriage of Convenience than of Love. 1724 J. Swift Let. to Shop-keepers of Ireland (new ed.) 14 It is only for Convenience, or Ease, that you are content to take them. 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters ii. 125 A building..for the convenience of the drinkers. 1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 55 Articles of necessity, convenience, or luxury. 1875 W. S. Jevons Money (1878) 14 The convenience of borrowing and lending in one generally recognized commodity. 1888 M. Morris Claverhouse vii. 127 Like Pilate again, he preferred his own convenience, and the prisoner was put to death. 1890 Eng. Illustr. Mag. Christm. No. 276 He awaited my convenience in the drawing-room. < as lemmas |
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