At your convenience means at a time that suits you: you can return the borrowed maps at your convenience. It's polite and formal, the language of emails and notices. At your earliest convenience means as soon as you can, a gentle way of saying please hurry.
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action + at your convenience / at your earliest convenience
- You can return the borrowed maps at your convenience.
- Please review the sketch at your convenience and send me any comments.
- We can arrange a call at your convenience next week.
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First versionPlease collect the spare key at your convenient.
RevisionPlease collect the spare key at your convenience.
Whenever it's convenient is the idea, so the adjective convenient appears. But after your you need a noun: at your convenience. The adjective goes before a noun: at a convenient time.
As soon as possible asks directly for speed. When you have time means the same as at your convenience, only simpler and more casual. At a convenient time is also correct, but it's a different structure.
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Choose the noun in the polite timing phrase: You may view the sample at your ___.
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convenience — After your you need the noun convenience. Convenient is an adjective and needs a noun after it: a convenient time.
Politely let someone choose when to pick up an item or look at a document, using at your convenience.
You can inspect the display at your convenience before we pack it for transport.
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