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convenient
/kənˈvi.njənt/
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What does convenient mean?
adjective
- Serving to reduce a difficulty, or accessible with minimum difficulty; expedient.
- Suspicious due to suiting someone's purposes very well.
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adjective
- (obsolete) Fit; suitable; appropriate.
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If so, will the Judge make it convenient to be present, and favor the auctioneer with his bid, on the proximate occasion?
“Oftentimes very convenient, no doubt, but never pleasing. There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.”
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The slave-dealer collects his gang in Virginia or Kentucky, and drives them to some convenient, healthy place,—often a watering place,—to be fattened.
There was a stone-edged roadway along the latter, where the canal barges might receive and deliver traffic in the most convenient manner.
Psychology of course knows that the objective and subjective worlds are interdependent, inextricably intertwined, but for practical purposes the distinction is convenient.