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Definition of Public convenience
1. Noun. A toilet that is available to the public.
Generic synonyms: Facility, Bathroom, Can, John, Lav, Lavatory, Privy, Toilet
Specialized synonyms: Ladies' Room, Powder Room, Latrine, Men's, Men's Room
Lexicographical Neighbors of Public Convenience
Literary usage of Public convenience
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"public convenience not ordinarily a ground of police control. —The Supreme Court
of the United States, in discussing the nature of the power to impose ..."
2. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"public convenience not ordinarily a ground of police control.—The Supreme Court
of the United States, in discussing the nature of the power to impose ..."
3. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"public convenience not ordinarily a ground of police control.—The Supreme Court
of the United States, in discussing the nature of the power to impose ..."
4. Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations by John Forrest Dillon (1911)
"CHAPTER XXIII DEDICATION Section Dedication founded in public convenience 1070
Statutory Dedication .... 1071 Statutory Dedication ; Character of Estate ..."
5. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
""To determine the issue raised by the petition, we are required to certify whether
or not a public necessity or an essential public convenience requires the ..."
6. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"It is enough that the purpose is one of public necessity or great public convenience,
and is made certainly and directly subservient to public use, ..."
7. Annual Report by New Jersey Civil Service Commission (1908)
"There is a public convenience and necessity to be served by an electric railroad
from Buffalo to Batavia, and this will be served by the line of the Buffalo ..."