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/əˈvāl/,
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avails, 3rd person singular present; availing, present participle; availed, past tense; availed, past participle;
  1. Use or take advantage of (an opportunity or available resource)
    • - my daughter did not avail herself of my advice
  2. Help or benefit
    • - no amount of struggle availed Charles
    • - the dark and narrow hiding place did not avail to save the fugitives
  1. a means of serving; "of no avail"; "there's no help for it"
  2. use to one's advantage; "He availed himself of the available resources"
  3. be of use to, be useful to; "It will avail them to dispose of their booty"
  4. take or use; "She helped herself to some of the office supplies"
  5. AVAIL is Avail's first release ever. It was originally released on vinyl only in 1989. A remix of this album, containing re-recordings of four songs, was released in 1991. The recording of this album took place in December 1989 at Inner Ear Studios.
  6. Avail is a punk band from Richmond, Virginia. Originally from Northern Virginia, the band formed in 1987, its members including Joe Banks, Doug Crosby, Brian Stewart and Mikey Warstler. ...
  7. Benefit; value, profit; advantage toward success. [15th-19th c.]; Effect in achieving a goal or aim; purpose, use (now usually in negative constructions). [from 15th c.]; Proceeds; profits from business transactions. [from 15th c. ...
  8. (availing) Effect in achieving a goal or aim; purpose, use; Efficacious
  9. (Avails) Time on a station or network, which is available for sale.
  10. The commercial position in a program or between programs on a given station available for purchase.
  11. A break within normal network programming allotted to a local cable system for insertion of local commercials.
  12. In U.S. advertising, an avail refers to inventory that a TV or radio seller has available to offer a local TV or radio media buyer. Several avails comprise a proposal. ...
  13. (as in “What’s your avail?”) The abbreviated version of “availability.” For actors, your avail is when you’re not committed to a film, television show, or other gig. If you don’t know what your avail is, ask your agent/manager.
  14. Inventory available for purchase in specific time periods.
  15. be of use or advantage toward attainment of a goal
  16. a courtesy situation extended by an agent to a producer indicating that a performer is available to work a certain job. Avails have no legal or contractual status
  17. Slang. Availability.