noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
convenience food
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We eat too little fresh food, relying instead on convenience foods.
convenience store
marriage of convenience
public convenience
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
administrative
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The change in the figures appeared to be due to things like administrative convenience .
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But this bogus community, spirited up to serve administrative convenience , does not exist.
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Does he agree that access to justice is more important than administrative convenience ?
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Prices in such circumstances become an administrative convenience or merely irrelevant.
great
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For instance ice which is formed on salt water is substantially fresh, to the great convenience of Polar explorers.
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Advantages of the nondairy toppings over whipping cream are lower fat content, lower cost per serving, and greater convenience .
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Used properly, bothies are places of great convenience and delight, but do remember a couple of important points.
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The lorry, with its greater flexibility and convenience to farmers and country shippers, was about to take over.
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And a more frequent service meant greater passenger convenience .
modern
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Contrary to modem popular opinion these were splendid ships with excellent accommodation and many modern conveniences for both crew and passengers.
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I don't want to give up modern conveniences such as my computer or garage door opener.
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The lack of modern conveniences does not reflect an unusual form of asceticism.
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The nuns do not, as a matter of religious conviction, use such modern conveniences , but city bureaucrats were implacable.
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Like Povoado de Jose Valerio, most of the villages know no modern conveniences .
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We can accommodate anywhere from 20 to more than 300 people, with all the modern conveniences .
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The cell phone has turned into more than a modern day convenience , it is a status symbol.
public
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It was used as a public convenience for more than a hundred years.
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The woman stepped lightly away on her high-heeled, patent leather boots to her basket-work Mini parked beside the public convenience .
■ NOUN
food
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It's a good buy, particularly if you frequently heat convenience foods .
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To conclude this discussion of convenience foods , two points can be made.
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This vitamin loss is a reason why those expensive ready-made and overcooked convenience foods are not as nourishing.
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They selected 166 convenience foods for cost comparisons with home prepared counterparts.
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If you live a fast, hectic life and you eat mostly ready-made convenience foods , try to consider some other alternatives.
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They reported that quality-wise, the convenience foods did not differ significantly from the home-prepared items.
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The loveliest remarks on this phenomenon come from the corporate convenience food conveyancers.
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Cooks around the world love a good convenience food .
store
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Police spoke of a benign new law enforcement tactic no more intrusive than a video camera at a convenience store .
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Price these items in two supermarkets and a convenience store .
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At a convenience store / gas station in Manvel, several people seek refuge from the storms.
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Soon, the station will complete a new, larger convenience store .
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Craig comes in from his job at a convenience store .
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Few businesses larger than convenience stores planned to open today.
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The call was traced to a pay phone at a convenience store .
■ VERB
suit
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Services should be run to suit the convenience of customers, not of staff.
use
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The nuns do not, as a matter of religious conviction, use such modern conveniences , but city bureaucrats were implacable.
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It was used as a public convenience for more than a hundred years.
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Please make copies of this so that you may use them at your convenience in the future to return information to the Council.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Being able to pay bills over the Internet is a real convenience .
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People are willing to pay higher rent for the convenience of living near mass transit.
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The new Accord station wagon offers safety and convenience .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He sits in front of a convenience store and asks customers for quarters.
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In these experiments, humans were used for convenience , because they're good at following directions.
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No inmate, however, was to be confined at night without being provided with a bed and other conveniences.
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Some people might be tempted by convenience .
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The convenience of the high trees!
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The D metric is a computational convenience .
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They selected 166 convenience foods for cost comparisons with home prepared counterparts.