availverb/əˈveɪl/

• 1

  To turn to the advantage of.

  • I availed myself of the opportunity.
  • It asserts that the museum has clear protocols for dealing with any form of discrimination or discontent, which it says [Tanya] Barson never availed herself of, […]
• 2

  To be of service to.

  • Artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment.
• 3

  To promote; to assist.

• 4

  To be of use or advantage; to answer or serve the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object.

  • The plea in court must avail.
  • This scheme will not avail.
• 5

  To provide; to make available.

  • With this initiative, Valucard becomes an open system that is not limited to point of sale (POS) transactions, but now avails cash to its holders in various locations nationwide.
• 6

  To use or take advantage of (an opportunity or resource).

  • You can avail discounts on food.
  • Over 85.3% of all persons who have adopted this method of contraception availed this service from government facilities.

availnoun/əˈveɪl/

• 1

  Effect in achieving a goal or aim; purpose, use (now usually in negative constructions).

  • I tried fixing it to no avail.
  • Labor, without economy, is of little avail.
• 2

  Proceeds; profits from business transactions.

  • the avails of their own industry
• 3

  advertisingbroadcastingbusinessAn advertising slot or package.

  • The salesperson at an affiliate TV station might prepare an avail which offers two weeks of spots in early and late news[…].
  • At an avail, the ad server plays out the MPEG-2 audio/video elementary streams.
• 4

  governmentjournalismmediaA press avail.

  • While holding an avail yesterday, the candidate lashed out at critics.
• 5

  actingbroadcastingentertainmentNon-binding notice of availability for work.

• 6

  A readily available stock of oil.

  • Total crude oil avails (production plus purchases) of even highly "self-sufficient" refiners are far greater than their reported refinery inputs.
• 7

  obsoleteBenefit; value, profit; advantage toward success.

  • I shal take the aduenture sayd Balen that god wille ordeyne me / but the swerd ye shalle not haue at this tyme by the feythe of my body / ye shalle repente hit within short tyme sayd the damoysel/ For I wold haue the swerd more for your auaylle than for myne / for I am passyng heuy for your sake
  • hardy Citizens[…]sticke not to sacrifice their honours and consciences, as those of old, their lives, for their Countries availe and safety.
• 8

  obsoleteEffort; striving.

  • And ev'n now, though he breathless lies, his sails / Are struggling with the winds, for our avails / T'explore a passage hid from human tract, / Will fame him in the enterprise or fact.

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