convenient

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  1. adjective Suited or favorable to one's comfort, purpose, or needs: a convenient time to receive guests; a convenient excuse for not going.
  2. adjective Easy to reach; accessible: a bank with branches at six convenient locations.
  3. adjective Close at hand; near: an apartment that is convenient to shopping and transportation.

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  • Write to me when convenient, and reckon always on the poor services of your most affectionate friend, who wishes you every happiness. —  General Scott
  • I used to shave and dress my master when convenient, and take care of his horse; and when it was necessary, which was very often, I worked likewise on board of different vessels of his. —  The Life of Olaudah Equiano Or Gustavus Vassa The African
  • We shall be very glad to see you both at West Lodge when you can make it convenient, and I do hope and trust we shall be able to enjoy the anticipated pleasure of your company. —  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • It would be particularly convenient, his lordship remarked, for single ships to go down channel, and rendezvous at Milford Haven, from whence they might at any time put to sea; either for the purpose of going off Brest, or stretching for the West Indies, when it was impossible for whole fleets to clear the channel, where they were now not unfrequently detained as long a time as would be requisite to make the whole voyage. —  The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson
  • They proceed in one direction as far as may be deemed convenient, and then, without going about, or turning completely round as we do, they merely change the stern of the canoe into the head, by shifting the tack of the sail over to leeward, and so converting it into the sheet — while the other clew, being shifted up to windward, becomes the tack. —  The Lieutenant and Commander
 

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proper ·  suitable ·  comfortable ·  reasonable ·  safe ·  neat
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  1. Middle English, from Latin conveniēns, convenient-, present participle of convenīre, to be suitable, fit; see convene.

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  1. from Middle English convenient = French convenant = Spanish Portuguese Italian conveniente, from Latin convenien(t-)s, fit, suitable, convenient, present participle of convenire, come together, suit: see convene, and cf. covenant, ult. a doublet of convenient.
 

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/kənˈvinɪənt/
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