"conveniences" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to things that make a situation or task easier or more comfortable, such as objects, services, or processes. Example: The hotel offers several modern conveniences, like internet access and a swimming pool.
Certain modern conveniences have been easy to forgo.
With its ornate Corinthian columns and marble statues of Ceres and Bacchus, the state dining room at Syon was designed by Robert Adam to "parade the conveniences and the social pleasures of life".
Her tiny mud-brick house boasts such modern conveniences as a computer bought with a loan from relatives, while arranged neatly on the kitchen window sill are her teenage daughter's cosmetics.
What Kingfish said about sharing out the country's wealth to provide every American family with "enough for a home, an automobile, a radio, and the ordinary conveniences" was increasingly insincere.
But a lesson from the WebCams is that, whatever happens, private Webcasting will continue to boom because people still want to keep an eye on their loved ones, their possessions, or just the conveniences that make a difference to their everyday lives, like the car park at work.Inevitably, the growth of amateur Webcasting will further blur the indistinct boundary between public and private.
Banks have cut costs by installing cash machines and closing branches but want to extract high fees for these "conveniences".
But they are higher than in public call boxes and for prisoners, whose average wage is £8 a week, they are mountainous.Then inmates had better stay silent, is one response: those who commit crimes must expect to forfeit access to the conveniences of modern life.
Young "associates" huddle around a shopping till, learning how to tally the necessaries and conveniences of life, such as the live turtles and toads on sale in the food section.
In the past eight years, 47% of public conveniences in Britain's cities have closed: that leaves one for every 20,000 residents.
In Japan, such conveniences are commonplace, and almost all handsets come with the bar code-reading software already loaded.
In "American Woman's Home", published in 1869, the Beecher sisters recommended a scientific approach to household management, designed with puritanical zeal to enhance the efficiency of a woman's work, and promote order.A full supply of all conveniences in the kitchen and cellar, and a place appointed for each article, very much facilitate domestic labour.
