inconvenience
noun/ˌɪnkənˈviːniəns/
/ˌɪnkənˈviːniəns/
- [uncountable] trouble or problems, especially in connection with what you need or would like yourself
- We apologize for the delay and regret any inconvenience it may have caused.
- I have already been put to considerable inconvenience.
Extra ExamplesTopics Difficulty and failurec1- I chose a different route to avoid the inconvenience of going through the town centre.
- I don't want to put you to any inconvenience.
- The benefits of doing this usually outweigh the inconvenience.
- The club management will try to ensure that the building work is carried out with the minimum of inconvenience to guests.
- The rail strike is likely to cause considerable public inconvenience.
- You could have fetched me from the airport and saved me the inconvenience of having to take the bus!
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- considerable
- great
- major
- …
- endure
- have
- suffer
- …
- inconvenience to
- [countable] a person or thing that causes problems or difficulties synonym nuisance
- I can put up with minor inconveniences.
- This isn't a mere inconvenience; it's dangerous.
Word Originlate Middle English (originally in the sense ‘incongruity’, also ‘unsuitability’): via Old French from late Latin inconvenientia ‘incongruity, inconsistency’, from in- ‘not’ + Latin convenient- ‘agreeing, fitting’ (from the verb convenire ‘assemble, agree, fit’, from con- ‘together’ + venire ‘come’).
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