Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being available; availableness.
- noun That which is available.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
available . - noun countable That which is available.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being at hand when needed
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
Guns Kill People ( Shock News) Newmania 2007
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Without the word press, the word availability has a different meaning in today’s politics: “commercial time available for purchase by advertisers.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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Without the word press, the word availability has a different meaning in today’s politics: “commercial time available for purchase by advertisers.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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The availability is currently listed as "unknown".
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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 2009
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First, knowledge about supply, demand, individual preferences and resource availability is scattered — much of it never articulated — throughout society.
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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.
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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).
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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).
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'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 2009
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