Avail

Definition: Avail

Avail

Noun

1. A means of serving; "of no avail"; "there's no help for it".

Verb

1. Use to one's advantage; "He availed himself of the available resources".

2. Be of use to, be useful to; "It will avail them to dispose of their booty".

3. Take or use; "She helped herself to some of the office supplies".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "avail" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

avail

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Avail

Inutility

Adjective: useless, inutile, inefficacious, futile, unavailing, bootless; inoperative; inadequate; (insufficient); inservient, unsubservient; inept, inefficient; (impotent); of no avail; (use); ineffectual; (failure); incompetent; (unskillful); " stale, flat and unprofitable"; superfluous; (redundant); dispensable; thrown away; (wasted); abortive; (immature).

Success

Answer, answer the purpose; avail, prevail, take effect, do, turn out well, work well, take, tell, bear fruit; hit it, hit the mark, hit the right nail on the head; nick it; turn up trumps, make a hit; find one's account in.

Use

Ply, work, wield, handle, manipulate; play, play off; exert, exercise, practice, avail oneself of, profit by, resort to, have recourse to, recur to, take betake oneself to; take up with, take advantage of; lay one's hands on, try.

Exercitation; application, appliance; adhibition, disposal; consumption; agency; (physical); usufruct; usefulness; benefit; recourse, resort, avail.

Utility

Verb: be useful; Adjective: avail, serve; subserve; (be instrumental to); conduce; (tend); answer, serve one's turn, answer a purpose, serve a purpose.

Noun: utility; usefulness; Adjective: efficacy, efficiency, adequacy; service, use, stead, avail; help; (aid); applicability; Adjective: subservience; (instrumentality); function; (business); value; worth; (goodness); money's worth; productiveness; cui bono; (intention); utilization; (use) step in the right direction.

Crosswords: Avail

The Dark Flame will not avail you, Flame of Udun. (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

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Books

• Prayers That Avail Much for Fathers: James 5:16 (Prayers That Avail Much) (reference)

• The Prayers That Avail Much Journal (reference)

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... efforts to treat the child's double pneumonia were of no avail. / WHO photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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In no case can Germany avail herself of these instruments and she undertakes not to intervene in any way in negotiations relating to Egypt which may take place between Great Britain and the other Powers. (reference)

I shall certainly avail myself of this freedom, and feel the more right to do so because any private ambitions I may have cherished in my younger days have been satisfied beyond my wildest dreams. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

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At her age she can have no experience, and with her little wit, is not very likely ever to have any that can avail her.

Your riches and your enjoyments are advantages that I have over you in the debate, but it is not in good taste to avail myself of them.

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Business

If so, these companies could avail themselves of the cost advantages which Argentina enjoys to make significant entries into export markets. (references)

Economic History

Norway

Companies can avail themselves of many trade promotion opportunities. (references)

Russia

U.S. firms should avail themselves of locally based specialists familiar with issues confronting western firms in Russia. (references)

Human Rights

Guyana

Prior to his death, Brunoanish reportedly asked for medical attention to no avail. (references)

Trade

India

The rule of origin requirement is mandatory to avail tariff preferences. (references)

South Africa

Furthermore, long term insurers, pension funds and unit trusts through unit trust management companies may now also apply to avail of foreign currency transfers in 2000 of up to 10% of the net inflow of funds during the 1999 calendar year and to acquire foreign portfolio investments subject to the overall respective limits referred to. (references)

Travel

Uk

Visitors uncomfortable with or intimidated by the prospect of driving on the left-hand side of the road may wish to avail themselves of extensive bus, rail and air transport networks, though these can be expensive modes of travel. (references)

Worker Rights

United Kingdom

Effective in April, the Government increased the threshold of total personal assets to allow more low-income pensioners to avail themselves of this benefit. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "avail": avail oneself ♦ avail oneself of ♦ avail oneself of smth. ♦ be of avail ♦ be of little avail ♦ be of no avail ♦ of avail ♦ of little avail ♦ of no avail ♦ of what avail is it? ♦ To avail one's self of ♦ to no avail ♦ without avail. Additional references.

Beginning with "avail": avail-able.

Containing "avail": av-av-avail-av-is.

Afrikaans

baat (account, advantage, benefit, gain, profit). (various references)

Albanian

vlerë (amount, asset, caliber, calibre, denomination, feck, merit, price, purchase, quality, rate, valor, valour, value, worth), shërbej (act, attend, fetch and carry, lackey, lacquey, minister, nurse, oblige, serve, wait, wait on, wait upon), ndihmoj (administer, advance, aid, assist, back, befriend, bestead, chip in, contribute, facilitate, further, give a hand, help, help out, lend a hand, make for, meet halfway, pander, promote, relieve, subserve, succor, succour, support, take effect, tide over), dobi (advantage, benefit, boot, expedience, expediency, gain, good, instrumentality, interest, use, utility, value), bëj punë (do). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فائدة (advantage, behoof, benefit, good, increase, interest, living, pay off, pay-book, profit, scoop, use, usefulness, usury, utility, welfare, worth), ‏نفع (instrumentation, profit, serve, use, usefulness), ‏إستفاد (avail oneself of, benefit, benefit by, capitalize, conclude, deduce, improve, profit), ‏إستغل (exploit, follow up, harness, impose, milk, presume, profiteer, quarry, take advantage of, tap, trade on), ‏أفاد (benefit, signify, subserve). (various references)

Bulgarian 

от полза (profitable, useful), облага (benefit, convenience, profit), помагам на (assist, forward, help, second), ползувам (be use of, benefit, employ, profit, serve, use), полза (account, advantage, behoof, boot, expedience, expediency, favour, good, interest, profit, use, utility, value, velvet). (various references)

Chinese 

�"�. (various references)

Czech

užitek (benefit, good, utility), prospívat (prosper, thrive, vail), prospìch (advantage, behoof, benefit, good, grades, interest, profit, welfare, well). (various references)

Danish

Medlemsstaterne udnytter alle muligheder (Member States shall avail themselves of any opportunity). (various references)

Dutch

van nut zýn, helpen (abet, accomodate, aid, assist, help, serve), baten (accomodate, aid, assist, help). (various references)

Esperanto

utili. (various references)

Faeroese

nytta, gagna. (various references)

Farsi 

فایده بخشیدن , فایده (Advantage, Fruit, Profit, Use, Utter), کمک (Adjutant, Aid, Ancillary, Assist, Assistance, Hand, Help, Helper, Helpmeet, Mate, Relief, Second, Service, Subservience, Succor, Support), سودمندبودن (Advantage), سود (Advantage, Dividend, Fruit, Gain, Good, Grist, Increment, Interest, Lucre, Profit, Utter), استفاده (Beneficiary, Benefit, Gain, Use, Utilization), ارزش (Cost, Price, Valence, Value), دارای ارزش بودن , دردسترس واقع شدن , بدردخوردن (Answer, Dow, Serve). (various references)

Finnish

apu (aid, assistance, help, relief, remedy, rescue, succour, support, use). (various references)

French

profiter, profit, faire profiter, exploiter. (various references)

Frisian

bate. (various references)

German

helfen (abet, accomodate, aid, aiding, assist, be of help to, cure, give a hand, help, lend a hand, relieve, to aid, to assist, to avail, to lend a hand, to second). (various references)

Greek 

χρησιμεύω (serve). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"ועיל (be useful), תועלת (advantage, behalf, benefit, gain, good, profit, sake, use, usefulness, utility, value). (various references)

Hungarian

haszon (advantage, benefit, boot, earnings, emoluments, gain, gainings, gains, lucre, plunder, proceeds, profit, return, spoil, use, utility), elõnyére van, elõny (advantage, behoof, benefit, preference, profit, stead, vantage, virtue). (various references)

Indonesian

faedah (profit). (various references)

Italian

servire (answer, attend, attend to, attendant, be a steady customer, be of use, boy, deal, dish, dish out, handle, help, make use, operate, servant, serve, to serve, use, wait), essere utile, utilizzare (exploit, make use of, use, utilise, utilize), giovare (be good, be useful, profit, take advantage). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"�斐 (effect, result, use, worth). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かい (assembly, association, being in between, buyer, buying, club, concerning oneself with, counter for occurrences, effect, -floor, large, low rank, lower order, mediation, meeting, mystery, oar, paddle, party, purchase, result, scull, shell, shellfish, stories, subordinate, the feelings of the people, together, use, wonder, worth). (various references)

Korean 

이익 (Behalf, GAIN, Profit, profits). (various references)

Manx

vondeishal (benefit, profit), foaynoo (availment, consequence, essence, fame, fettle, form, function, import, importance, order, reputation, state, utility, value, worth), chyndaa gys vondeish, baardagh. (various references)

Papiamen

probechá. (various references)

Pig Latin

availay

Portuguese

auxiliar (accessorial, accomodate, adjunct, adjuvant, aid, ancillary, assist, assistant, auxilary, auxiliary, back, cad, candle-holder, favor, favour, friend, hand, handy man, help, helper, lend a hand, minister, ministerial, patronize, preventer, protect, relieve, second, secondary, subsidiary, succor, succour, support), aproveitar (appropriate, intend for, profit, take, utilize), ajudar (abet, accomodate, aid, assist, back, befriend, benefit, encourage, further, help, lend a hand, minister, pilot, relieve, serve, subserve, succor, succour, support, to help), vantagem (advantage, behoof, benefit, better, bisque, boon, boot, catch, convenience, gain, good, interest, odds, profit, purchase, utility, vantage), valer-se de (betake), utilizar-se de (utilize), utilidade (advantage, availability, benefit, good, subservience, use, utility, value), proveito (acquisition, advantage, benefit, boot, fruit, gain, good, improvement, interest, profit, return, stead), lucro (benefit, cleanup, emolument, gain, interest, lucre, plunder, profit, return, yield), defesa (advantage, aegis, behoof, blindage, boot, breastwork, bunce, cover-point, defence, defense, egis, fender, fireguard, household troops, interdiction, maintenance, parry, pleading, preservation, profit, protection, save, security, shield, spar, tower, vindication, ward), beneficiar (advantage, be favorable, be favourable, benefit, boot, do well, favor, favour, improve, profit), benefício (advantage, behoof, benefaction, benefit, boon, gain, good, preference, profit). (various references)

Romanian

avantaj (account, advantage, benefit, boon, convenience, edge, gain, good, interest, odds, plus, point, profit, vantage), ajuta (abet, accomodate, advantage, aid, answer, assist, back up, befriend, benefit, carry, carry through, comfort, encourage, fillip, help, minister to, promote, prop, push, relieve, second, serve, succor, succour, support, sustain), utilitate (availability, convenience, expedience, expediency, service, use, usefulness, utility), servi (assist, attend, help, minister to, pitch, serve, set a dish on the table, wait on), oferi (accord, afford, bid, exhibit, extend, give, hold forth, offer, proffer, put up, show, stand, stretch, yield), folosi (affect, anticipate, apply, benefit, boot, dispose, employ, impress, make use of, occupy, practise, put forth, seize, stand smb. in good stead, turn to account, use, utilize, wield), folos (account, advantage, behoof, benefit, boot, catch, efficaciousness, emolument, gain, profit, service, stead, use, utility), fi de folos (be of service to, profit), da (accord, administer, afford, beat, bestow, bind, deal, deliver, deliver up, extend, fetch, find, gift, give, give away, grant, hallo, hand, inflict, launch, lend, offer, pass, pay, push, reach, render, restore, return, sell, send, set, sound, sprout, yea, yes, yield). (various references)

Russian 

выгода (account, advantage, benefit, catch, interest, profit, velvet), быть полезным (agree), польза (advantage, behoof, benefit, favor, favour, good, profit, use, wholesomeness). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pomoći (assist, bale out, give a hand, help, help out, stand by, succor, succour, tide, tide over), korist (availability, behalf, benefit, boon, interest, prize, profit, sake, stead, utility, value), iskoristiti (draw on, employ, exploit, improve, make the most of, use, utilize), dobitak (gainings, makings). (various references)

Spanish

aprovechar (benefit, draw on, draw upon, embrace, exploit, harness, improve, make use of, push, seize, take, take advantage of, tap, turn to good account, use, utilize). (various references)

Swedish

tjäna till, gagna (be of use to, benefit, consume, serve). (various references)

Thai

ใช้ประโยชน์, ให้ประโยชน์, เป็นประโยชน์ (beneficial), ประโยชน์. (various references)

Turkish

avantaj (advance, advantage, benefit, head start, odds, start, vantage, whip hand), yararı olmak (help, profit, redound), yarar (account, advantage, benefit, convenience, efficacy, gain, grist to the mill, stead, use, utility), yaramak (agree, agree with, be of service to, benefit, correspond, do for, lend itself to, profit, serve, suit), kâr (avails, benefit, capital, catch, fruit, gain, gainings, increment, melon, pay dirt, profit, return), işe yaramak (answer the purpose, be useful, come in handy, serve the purpose, work), fayda (advantage, benefit, grist, handiness, profit, service, stead, use, usefulness, utility). (various references)

Ukrainian

користь (account, advantage, benefit, convenience, emolument, gain, good, profit, use), вигода (accommodation, account, advantage, behoof, boot, capital, emolument, profit, spoil), бути корисним (agree, be of service, be useful, suit), допомагати (abet, accommodate, advantage, assist, beet, benefit, bestead, boot, boot out, cater, forward, lend a hand, oblige, promote, see through). (various references)

Vietnamese 

điều có lợi. (various references)

Welsh

tycio (prosper, succeed), llesa/u (advantage, benefit, boot), lles (advancement, advantage, behoof, benefit, boot, good, profit), buddio (profit), budd (advancement, behoof, benefit, gain, profit). (various references)

possum posse potum. (various references)

servir. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "avail": availabilities, availability, available, availableness, availablenesses, availably, availed, availing, avails. (additional references)

Words ending with "avail": reavail, travail. (additional references)

Words containing "avail": bioavailabilities, bioavailability, bioavailable, interavailabilities, interavailability, nonavailabilities, nonavailability, reavailed, reavailing, reavails, travailed, travailing, travails, unavailabilities, unavailability, unavailable, unavailing, unavailingly, unavailingness, unavailingnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Avail" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aaal, Adalia, afaik, agail, Ajai, anveil, Asvall, Ataul, avaci, avacil, Avadi, Avai, avaible, availa, avain, avait, aval, avaline, avall, avaol, avay, aveil, avey, avia, aviah, avial, avias, aviil, avil, avili, avol, Avoniel, avril, Avrili, Awali, axail, Ayvalik, azael, Azali, bavai, Cavali, Eaval, eavil, evail, eveil, ivail, Javadi, Navratil, Navvabi, ovial, ravail, uvail, Va'ai, Vahaji. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lava, vail, vial.

-2 letters: aal, ail, ala, ava, lav, via.

-3 letters: aa, ai, al, la, li.

+1 letter: avails, gavial, saliva, salvia.

+2 letters: alluvia, arrival, availed, datival, gavials, ovarial, pahlavi, reavail, salivas, salvias, travail, vaginal, valiant, valonia, vanilla, variola, vatical, vedalia, velaria.

+3 letters: ablative, aestival, alluvial, archival, arrivals, availing, aventail, avicular, calvaria, carnival, cavalier, galivant, galvanic, javelina, lavalier, lavalike, lavation, laxative, malvasia, pahlavis, reavails, salivary, salivate, travails, vaccinal, valencia, valerian, valiance, valiancy, valiants, validate, valonias, vandalic, vanillas, variable, variably, varietal, variolar, variolas, vedalias, velamina, viatical, vicarial.