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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."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Available" Quotes from Famous Books

... and additional healthcare reforms are continuing without clear prospects for agreement and implementation. Intensified restructuring among large enterprises, improvements in the financial sector, and effective use of available EU funds should strengthen output growth. The pro-business Civic Democratic Party-led government approved reforms in 2007 designed to cut spending on some social welfare benefits and reform the tax system with the aim of eventually reducing the budget deficit ...

— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... sooner mounted and gone than the Colonel despatched a groom for Mr. Mac-Morlan, and, putting the deed into his hand, requested to know if it was likely to be available to his friend Lucy Bertram. Mac-Morlan perused it with eyes that sparkled with delight, snapped his fingers repeatedly, and at length exclaimed, 'Available! it's as tight as a glove; naebody could make better wark than Glossin, when he didna let down a steek on ...

— Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

... necessary, since there is no other remedy, to compel Diego de Rueda to declare to me, and attest as a notary, the contents of the protest; and in order to cause him to do so, even though he resist, I shall have to make use of the means, however harsh, that I shall find available. May God direct the matter, and may He guide me in all things so that I may be successful in serving your Lordship. Given at ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XXV, 1635-36 • Various

... speaking arises principally from having a distinct conception of the object aimed at and a strong desire to accomplish it. Under these circumstances you summon to your aid all your available power of thought and feeling. Your mental faculties are stimulated into their fullest activity, and you bend every effort toward the purpose ...

— Model Speeches for Practise • Grenville Kleiser

... the only knife available between them, the boys began frantically cutting niches or steps in the dirt wall. Fortunately it was packed hard enough so that it did not crumble. They took turns at the desperate labor, one holding the torch, and ...

— Frank and Andy Afloat - The Cave on the Island • Vance Barnum

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