avail
IPA: ʌvˈeɪɫ
noun
- Effect in achieving a goal or aim; purpose, use (now usually in negative constructions).
- (now only US) Proceeds; profits from business transactions.
- (television, advertising) An advertising slot or package.
- (US, politics, journalism) A press avail.
- (Britain, acting) Non-binding notice of availability for work.
- (oil industry) A readily available stock of oil.
- (obsolete) Benefit; value, profit; advantage toward success.
- 1895, Andrew Lang, A Monk of Fife:
- (obsolete, poetic) Effort; striving.
verb
- (transitive, often reflexive) To turn to the advantage of.
- (transitive) To be of service to.
- (transitive) To promote; to assist.
- (intransitive) To be of use or advantage; to answer or serve the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object.
- (India, Africa, elsewhere proscribed) To provide; to make available; to use or take advantage of (an opportunity or available resource).
adjective
- (colloquial) Clipping of available. [Such as one may avail oneself of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose.]
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Examples of "avail" in Sentences
- The stamps are available singly.
- A stencil is available in the pack.
- His death was of no avail to the damned.
- The availability of the ticket is limited.
- If available, the bearing might not be numerate.
- If not, the chart below the page is of no avail.
- Egocentric biases in availability and attribution.
- In the interim, evaluation of the game is available.
- It is currently available and affordable to the masses.
- Estimates of the lifetime of the dams are not available.