at one's convenience

Idioms and Phrases

Also, at one's earliest convenience . Whenever one wishes; also, as soon as one can. For example, Pick up the car any time, at your convenience , or We need that drawing very soon, so please finish it at your earliest convenience . The use of convenience in the sense of “ease” or “absence of trouble” dates from about 1700.

Example Sentences

Using the phone as a phone is said to be excessively intrusive, an immediate demand upon someone’s time as opposed to a message one can read and respond to at one’s convenience.

From Washington Post

They were unable to be sought out, let alone viewed at one’s convenience.

From Forbes

The pictures, which are of extremely minute duration, are thus permanently recorded and can be examined and analysed at one's convenience and leisure.

From Project Gutenberg

She felt perfectly safe with Sadie, and would have trusted her, if it were necessary, with the money she had hidden away in her closet at Uncle Starkweather’s; yet the other girl looked upon the laws of the land to which she had come for freedom as merely harsh rules to be broken at one’s convenience.

From Project Gutenberg

House Cleaning Hints.—For the last few days before house cleaning, ornaments and pictures can be washed at one's convenience.

From Project Gutenberg

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