Definition of availing in English English dictionary
- Efficacious
- Present participle of avail
I'm availing myself of the opportunity.
- Effect in achieving a goal or aim; purpose, use
Any use would probably be an availing of the protection afforded by the passport.
- avail
- To be of use or advantage; to answer or serve the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object
Medicines will not avail to halt the disease.
- avail
- To be of service to
Artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment.
- avail
- A readily available stock of oil
- avail
- To turn to the advantage of
I availed myself of the opportunity.
- avail
- An advertising slot or package
- avail
- A press avail
While holding an avail yesterday, the candidate lashed out at critics.
- avail
- Proceeds; profits from business transactions
The avails of this auction will go to the Cancer Society.
- avail
- Effort; striving
- avail
- To provide
- avail
- Non-binding notice of availability for work
- avail
- Effect in achieving a goal or aim; purpose, use (now usually in negative constructions)
Labor, without economy, is of little avail.
- avail
- If you do something to no avail or to little avail, what you do fails to achieve what you want. His efforts were to no avail
- avail
- If you avail yourself of an offer or an opportunity, you accept the offer or make use of the opportunity. Guests should feel at liberty to avail themselves of your facilities. be to/of no avail if something you do is to no avail or of no avail, you do not succeed in getting what you want. avail yourself of sth to accept an offer or use an opportunity to do something
- avail
- {n} advantage, profit, use, effect
- avail
- {v} to profit, assist, promote, do
- avail
- Proceeds
- avail
- a means of serving; "of no avail"; "there's no help for it"
- avail
- Success
- avail
- Availablity of network access
- avail
- To be of use or advantage; to answer the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object; as, the plea in bar must avail, that is, be sufficient to defeat the suit; this scheme will not avail; medicines will not avail to check the disease
- avail
- To promote; to assist
- avail
- Benefit; value, profit; advantage toward success
- avail
- be of use to, be useful to; "It will avail them to dispose of their booty"
- avail
- use to one's advantage; "He availed himself of the available resources"
- avail
- A courtesy situation extended by performer or agent to a producer indicating availability to work a certain job Avails have no legal or contractual status
- avail
- be of use to, be useful to; "It will avail them to dispose of their booty
- avail
- a means of serving; "of no avail"; "there's no help for it" use to one's advantage; "He availed himself of the available resources" take or use; "She helped herself to some of the office supplies" be of use to, be useful to; "It will avail them to dispose of their booty
- avail
- See Avale, v
- avail
- Profit; advantage toward success; benefit; value; as, labor, without economy, is of little avail
- avail
- Proceeds; as, the avails of a sale by auction
- avail
- To turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help
- avail
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- avail
- {i} advantage; profit; help
- avail
- To turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment
- avail
- take or use; "She helped herself to some of the office supplies"
- avail
- {f} be useful; help
- avail
- Available
Tom is not available at the moment. May I take a message?
- Tom isn't available at the moment. May I take a message?
The currently available evidence does not allow me to make such a claim.
- The currently available evidence does not permit me to make such a claim.
