avail
/əˈveɪl/ noun C2- Effect in achieving a goal or aim; purpose, use (now usually in negative constructions). · to no avail· I tried fixing it to no avail.
- Proceeds; profits from business transactions.
- An advertising slot or package.
- A press avail. · While holding an avail yesterday, the candidate lashed out at critics.
- A readily available stock of oil.
Plural avails
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I spent the whole of yesterday evening in making enquiries entirely without avail.
It was not until Lestrade succeeded in getting his hand inside his neckcloth and half-strangling him that we made him realize that his struggles were of no avail; and even then we felt no security until we had pinioned his feet as well as his hands.
“I’m afraid,” said Holmes, smiling, “that all the Queen’s horses and all the Queen’s men cannot avail in this matter.” He had spread out his big map of London and leaned eagerly over it.
“‘No excuse will avail,’ said Mr.
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