AVAILABLE • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Available

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/əvˈeɪləbəl/ Listen

adjective

Available adj.

Having sufficient power, force, or efficacy, for the object; effectual; valid; as, an available plea. (Obs.) "Laws human are available by consent."

Such as one may avail one's self of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose; usable; profitable; advantageous; convertible into a resource; as, an available measure; an available candidate. "Struggling to redeem, as he did, the available months and days out of so many that were unavailable." "Having no available funds with which to pay the calls on new shares."

See images of 'Available'

Etymology of 'Available'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Available" Quotes from Famous Books

... to a more even and a more equal foundation. That is the mission that lies before Liberalism. The cause of the Liberal Party is the cause of the left-out millions; and because we believe that there is in all the world no other instrument of equal potency and efficacy available at the present time for the purposes of social amelioration, we are bound in duty and in honour to guard it from all attacks, whether they arise ...

— Liberalism and the Social Problem • Winston Spencer Churchill

... at my apartment rather less in quantity than my appetite craved. While there was a reasonable variety, the nutritive value was always the same to a point of scientific exactness, and I had seen no shops where extra food was available. After I had been in my apartment about a week, some one rang at the door. I opened it and a man called out the single word, "Weigher." Just behind him stood a platform scale on small wheels and with handles like a go-cart. The weigher stood, notebook in hand, waiting for me to act. I took ...

— City of Endless Night • Milo Hastings

... was not yet latched. I opened it, dropped to the ground, and closed it behind me. Then I passed across the bumpers to the other side of the train. I opened the door the shack had latched, climbed in, and closed it behind me. Both exits were available again. The gay-cat ...

— The Road • Jack London

... you, and bite you, and push you into the first available ditch, for a poor coward, who was afraid to take care of the interests of woman, in case she got too well able in the end to take care ...

— Winding Paths • Gertrude Page

... correspondence was carried on in a mysterious manner, and related to the financial operations that had formed the grounds of a charge against him.—Thus it is that, on more than one occasion, the very channels intended for conveying truth to the knowledge of a sovereign have been made available to the purpose of communicating false intelligence to ...

— Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete • Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

More quotes...