available

CEFRA2

/əˈveɪ.lə.bəl/

adjective

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Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

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Such as one may avail oneself of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose.
Free to meet someone, speak on the telephone, enter a romantic relationship, or the like.
Having sufficient power, force, or efficacy to achieve the purpose; availing, effective.

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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.
1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Affair at the Novelty Theatre”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished a...
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.
1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 22
Van de Velde did not make himself available to journalists. “He wants to rest his mind,” Immers explained.
2024 July 28, Matthew Futterman, “Steven van de Velde brings yet another moral hazard to the Olympics”, in nytimes.com
The different navigations she had to pass through for this purpose were such that only an independent method of propulsion would be available.
1897, Henry Banroft, Proceedings - Institution of Mechanical Engineers, canal Boat Propulsion

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From Middle English available, avayllable, avayleable, equivalent of avail + -able.