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单词 postal facilities
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postal facilities
c. Originally U.S. In plural: the physical means or equipment required for doing something, or the service provided by this; frequently with modifying word, as educational facilities, postal facilities, retail facilities, etc. In singular: a service or feature of a specified kind; (also) a building or establishment that provides such a service.
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1848 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 24 Oct. 1/5 (headline) Miserable condition of the postal facilities between the United States and Mexico.
1872 R. G. McClellan Golden State xxv. 373 There was but little need of postal facilities.
1885 Science 9 Oct. 303/1 Since 1842 the Bulgarians, having acquired a national church and some educational facilities, have thrown off the cloak of listless barbarism.
1903 Coshocton (Ohio) Age 13 Mar. 8/2 (advt.) We believe you will all agree that no community in Ohio..enjoys such retail facilities.
1937 Discovery Nov. p. ci/1 Lunch and tea facilities.
1954 L. I. Hewes & C. H. Oglesby Highway Engin. viii. 207 An interchange..provides easy routes for vehicles transferring from one through facility to the other.
1962 Gloss. Terms Automatic Data Processing (B.S.I.) 99 Hold facility,..a means of interrupting the computing action and keeping all variables at the value they had.
1967 Times Rev. Industry Aug. 74/2 No one could have predicted..that the completed facility would have the bad luck to run head on into..a metals depression.
1971 Oxf. Univ. Gaz. 25 Feb. 708/1 The following decree adds Junior Members to the Committee for Sports Facilities.
1989 Which? Oct. 504/2 American Express offers an unsecured overdraft facility of up to £5,000 at an annual interest rate of 24.4 per cent.
1996 J. Morrish et al. in P. Trynka Rock Hardware 118/1 These [recording studios] were large, purpose-built facilities, with the best and most expensive equipment available.
2006 Flora Internat. Sept.–Oct. 9 Lytham..is a coast very much suited to small children, reflected in its shore-side facilities.
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