{
    "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’."
}