n.1 the quality of being convenient; suitability.
2 freedom from difficulty or trouble; material advantage (for convenience).
3 an advantage (a great convenience).
4 a useful thing, esp. an installation or piece of equipment.
5 Brit. a lavatory, esp. a public one.
Phrases and idioms:
at one's convenience at a time or place that suits one. at one's earliest convenience as soon as one can. convenience food food, esp. complete meals, sold in convenient form and requiring very little preparation. convenience store US a large shop with extended opening hours. make a convenience of take advantage of (a person) insensitively.
Etymology: ME f. L convenientia (as CONVENE)