AVAIL
\ɐvˈe͡ɪl], \ɐvˈeɪl], \ɐ_v_ˈeɪ_l]\
Definitions of AVAIL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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use to one's advantage; "He availed himself of the available resources"
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take or use; "She helped herself to some of the office supplies"
By Princeton University
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use to one's advantage; "He availed himself of the available resources"
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take or use; "She helped herself to some of the office supplies"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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To promote; to assist.
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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.
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Profit; advantage toward success; benefit; value; as, labor, without economy, is of little avail.
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Proceeds; as, the avails of a sale by auction.
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See Avale, v.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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To promote; to assist.
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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.
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Profit; advantage toward success; benefit; value; as, labor, without economy, is of little avail.
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Proceeds; as, the avails of a sale by auction.
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See Avale, v.
By Noah Webster.
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To be of use, value, or service; to give aid towards an end; to serve for a purpose.
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Use; means towards an end; advantage.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To be of value or service to; to benefit.
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To be of use: to answer the purpose.
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Benefit: profit: service.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To help; aid; profit.
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To take; secure.
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To be of advantage; suffice.
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Utility for a purpose; profit; benefit.
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Proceeds.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
Nearby Words
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