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convenient English

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Definitions in simple English

convenient

If something is convenient, you can get it or use it quickly and easily. Living here is so convenient. There's a supermarket right across the street, and a train station just a 2 minute walk away. It's more convenient to drive than it is to walk. This is the most convenient route to take.

convenient

suited to your comfort or purpose or needs a convenient excuse for not going (= commodious) large and roomy ('convenient' is archaic in this sense) a commodious harbor a commodious building suitable for conventions

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Simple sentences

You can come and see me whenever it's convenient for you.
When is it convenient for you?
When would it be convenient for you?
Please call on me when it is convenient for you.
Please come to meet me some time when it's convenient.
When will it be convenient for you?
Is it convenient for you if I come at 5 p.m.?
Is it convenient for you if I come at 6 p.m.?
The present world owes its convenient life to petroleum.
As for myself, Saturday will be convenient.
An afternoon appointment is more convenient for me.
I would like to stress that it is more convenient to control tariffs as a bloc rather than country by country.
The school uniform is convenient because it can be worn for both informal and formal occasions.
I'll come at three o'clock if it is convenient to you.
Where's convenient for you?
We could meet downtown. Would that be convenient for you?
Please call me whenever it is convenient to you.
When will it be convenient for you to come?
So, when is it convenient for you?

Movie subtitles

Such a convenient world.
Convenient?
It's just not convenient today, Nurse Crane.
It is not convenient here.
It's so convenient. It saves a lot of trouble.
It might be convenient sometime.
Most convenient coincidence.
I think that would be convenient.
These generals, substituting for arguments their uniform violating or invoking professional secrecy as they find convenient saying what they please.
That's very convenient.
It makes it more convenient for photographers.
It's convenient to have the first wife's permission, isn't it?
It's quite convenient.
What time will it be convenient for my seconds to call on you?
Such a convenient world. What can you do to.
Or a convenient method for avoiding a question.
We got something over there, and believe me, that's convenient.
Being a man would be very convenient if that were the case.
Tell him I'm not convenient to any friend of the King's.
That's a very convenient excuse for you, isn't it, you old drunkard?
A very convenient explanation.
And then dispose of him in some body of water, any river that's convenient.
What a convenient argument, my learned colleague. Unfortunately, it doesn't hold water.
But perhaps it isn't convenient.
You'll find the armchair the most convenient now.
Is it convenient to take a phone call?
Oh, that should be convenient to do the wash.
At this hour, it's not convenient.
That's convenient.
This bus is convenient for carrying baggage.
Ask him what time's most convenient for him.
And so convenient!
They put it on the bill, I tear up the bill. It is very convenient.
He simply tried to persuade you to allow yourself to be murdered in the most convenient manner.
Any time it's convenient.

News and current affairs

That is a convenient international ploy, but it leaves the sources of bilateral discord unattended.
Google's new technology is impressive, and will no doubt prove convenient for many consumers once the initial security problems are resolved.
The IMF and the World Bank have acted unscientifically in their advice, saying what is convenient for the rich countries, not what is scientifically accurate.
This part of the ecological footprint is a convenient measure of our literal footprint on earth.
Unfortunately, rapidly falling food prices during the 30-year period since the food crisis of the early 1970's gave governments a convenient excuse for doing little or nothing.
Indeed, that perceived deficit is something of a politically convenient canard.
Meanwhile, the other eurozone members, seeking to justify less financing, also found it convenient to overlook the calamitous impact of austerity.
Systems composed of microbes are often the most convenient models to study evolution in a laboratory.
This was no US-led conspiracy, but the collapse of the Soviet Union was convenient for America.
A cleaner, safer, more convenient road transportation system is possible - and closer to being realized than many believe.
Even as the deal was announced, however, newspaper reports suggested that officials recognized that the measures would be insufficient to meet the target; further negotiations on additional steps would be needed at a politically more convenient moment.
This means, of course, that if protectionism is politically convenient, you need not shed tears over harming the country by surrendering to it, an attitude that many Democrats in the United States find convenient to adopt.
In the ensuing public debate, two items have already emerged as central: money and conscription B one politically demanding, the other politically convenient.
While it may be convenient to hold others accountable for America's problems, this is bad economics driving bad politics.
The unified Palestinian delegation was convenient for Egypt and Israel, both of which consider Hamas a terrorist organization, and for Palestine, because it helped to bring an end to the violence.
Countries with the clout to flaunt the limits will do so whenever it is politically convenient.
But these goals can be achieved only if the EU resolves its financial crisis, embarks on a sustainable recovery, and, above all, becomes an inclusive economy.Otherwise, Roma will inevitably serve as the EU's convenient scapegoats.
Most corporations, after all, are merely convenient mechanisms for ensuring that scarce global capital is used at maximum efficiency, to the benefit of all.
This helps to keep board members in the dark - and gives them a convenient excuse for not really understanding how the business works.
Hamas is a far more convenient partner for such a settlement than the PLO.
We allowed convenient cultural stereotyping to sustain what we believed was the expedient pursuit of our national interest.
It would be convenient if global demographics were distributed in such a way that aging countries could run surpluses just when younger countries needed the capital.
Worse, however, is the number of countries that find it convenient to avert their eyes and ears from the deathly silence with which this Asian country chooses to present itself to the outside world.

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