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Meaning of available | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1 Frequent
əˈveɪ.lə.bəl

Definitions

  1. Such as one may avail oneself of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose.
  2. free (not imprisoned or enslaved)
  3. Readily obtainable.
  4. free (unconstrained)
  5. Valid.
  6. free (without obligations)
  7. Having sufficient power, force, or efficacy to achieve the purpose; availing, effective.
    archaic
  8. free (that can be unattached to another morpheme)
  9. Free to meet someone, speak on the telephone, enter a romantic relationship, or the like.
  10. free (without; not containing)

Equivalents

Examples

“We have an available candidate.”
“For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks.”
“The list shows the available products in the store.”
“This is an available plea.”
“One thing however, I finally settled upon—and that was, if I ever did meet him that I would shoot him precisely as I would shoot a mad dog. In order to make this plan available, I had […] armed myself with a revolver.”
“The different navigations she had to pass through for this purpose were such that only an independent method of propulsion would be available.”
“I have a question for you when you're available.”
“Hi, this is Mark Smith calling. Is your mother available?”
“I asked her if she was available, but she said she had a boyfriend.”
“Van de Velde did not make himself available to journalists. “He wants to rest his mind,” Immers explained.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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