available
adjective /əˈveɪ.lə.bl̩/Definition
A2 able to be bought or used: Is this dress available in a larger size? Our autumn catalogue is now available from our usual stockists. There's no money available for an office party this year. It is vital that food is made available to the famine areas. Do you have any double rooms available this weekend?Available and accessiblePresent › If someone is available, they are not busy and so are able to do something: [+ to infinitive] I'm afraid I'm not available to help with the show on the 19th. Every available officer will be assigned to the investigation.
(Definition of available adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Also, extra, and in addition
- Augmenting and supplementing
- Becoming and making smaller or less
- Becoming bigger
- Big and quite big
- Enlarging and inflating
- Enormous
- Enough
- Extremely small
- General words for size and amount
- Increasing and intensifying
- Large in number or quantity
- Masses and large amounts of things
- Maximum and minimum
- Medium-sized
- Merely and barely
- Plenty and abundant
- Scarce, inadequate and not enough
- Small
- Small in number and quantity
- Some and quite
- Someone, anyone, no one or everyone
- Something, anything, nothing, and everything
- Things collected in lines or rings
- Things remaining
- Too much and unnecessary
- Unavailable and inaccessible
- Unlimited
- Words meaning small pieces and amounts
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Synonyms and related words:
- accessible adjective
- at your command idiom
- availability noun
- be there for sb idiom
- bookable adjective (ARRANGE)
- clear adjective (NOT BLOCKED)
- come out phrasal verb (BE PUBLISHED)
- come verb (EXIST)
- disposal noun
- go verb (BE SOLD)
- on stream idiom
- open adjective (AVAILABLE)
- open sth up phrasal verb (SITUATION)
- open verb (AVAILABLE)
- ready adjective (PREPARED)
- ready to hand idiom
- ready-made adjective
- rerelease verb
- shelf noun
- vacant adjective (EMPTY)
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