Science Fair Project Dictionary
Avail
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English
Noun
- Profit; advantage toward success; benefit; value; as, labor, without economy, is of little avail.
- Proceeds; as, the avails of a sale by auction.
Verb (transitive)
- To turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment.
- To promote; to assist.
Verb (intransitive)
To be of use or advantage; to answer the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object; as, the plea in bar must avail, that is, be sufficient to defeat the suit; this scheme will not avail; medicines will not avail to check the disease.
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