{
    "term": "available",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "that you can get, buy or find",
            "sensetop": "available from somebody/somethingavailable for somethingavailable to somebody",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**available resources/data**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most **available evidence** suggests that home-schooled children are getting a good education."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Further details are available on request."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We'll send you a copy as soon as it **becomes available**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We **have** plenty of office space **available**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The document is now commercially available in electronic form."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**readily/widely/freely/publicly available**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Tickets are **currently available** at reduced prices from the festival office.",
                    "contextForm": "available from somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "This data is still **available for download** on the company's website.",
                    "contextForm": "available for something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "When will the information be **made available** to the public?",
                    "contextForm": "available to somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Tickets are available free of charge from the school."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This was the only room available."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Every available doctor was called to the scene."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Grants should be available for all students."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He has $10 000 of immediately available funds."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These products are only available for purchase online."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The houses are built using locally available materials."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The product will now be made available throughout the market."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "become", "make something"],
                "adverb": ["easily", "freely", "readily"],
                "preposition": ["for", "from", "to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "free to see or talk to people",
            "sensetop": "available to do somethingavailable for something",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Will she be available this afternoon?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She is in a meeting at present, but I will let you know as soon as she becomes available."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They'll be available to help every day next week.",
                    "contextForm": "available to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The director was not **available for comment**.",
                    "contextForm": "available for something"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "become"],
                "phrases": ["not available for comment"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "not currently involved in a sexual or romantic relationship",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the pool of available singles"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Do you think he's available?"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈveɪləbl/",
                "audio": "av/available/available__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈveɪləbl/",
                "audio": "av/available/available__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the senses ‘effectual, serviceable’ and ‘legally valid’): from avail + -able. The sense ‘at someone's disposal’ dates from the early 19th cent."
}