Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being available; suitableness for the accomplishment of a given purpose; capability of advantageous use or employment: as, the availability of a candidate for office, or of a proposed method.
Wiktionary
- n. The quality of being available.
- n. countable That which is available.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality of being available; availableness.
- n. That which is available.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the quality of being at hand when needed
Etymologies
- From available + -ity; attested since the early 1800s. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“As I briefly mentioned guns interact with culture, insert usual remark about the Swiss having no gun crime, and the effect of their availability is a socially dependent one.”
“Without the word press, the word availability has a different meaning in today’s politics: “commercial time available for purchase by advertisers.””
Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
“First, knowledge about supply, demand, individual preferences and resource availability is scattered — much of it never articulated — throughout society.”
“These can only get worse as the long-term availability of supplies is uncertain, particularly now our own sources are running out, and as demand from developing countries increases.”
“One of them, The Sands of Sarasvati, has been adapted to a graphic novel which was also translated into English (the availability is limited, unfortunately).”
“If politicians thought that they could take over the health care system without making huge cutbacks in availability of services, we would already have a single-payer system in Woodstock-nation states like Massachusetts or Oregon.”
Single Payer in the U.S.?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“If politicians thought that they could take over the health care system without making huge cutbacks in availability of services, we would already have a single-payer system in Woodstock-nation states like Massachusetts or Oregon.”
Single Payer in the U.S.?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“The availability is currently listed as "unknown".”
“Certainly you pay more per GB even at scale, but if availability is important to you and you want to reduce your backup costs, etc …. this starts to become a must for critical applications (like email, accounting packages, etc).”
“No specifics on the deal or timeline of availability is currently available.”
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Interesting words
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Basic English Vocabulary
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a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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Corp Speak and Biz Talk
Verbing nouns and nounifying verbs from 9 to 5.
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