Usually means: Makes use of; benefits from.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word avails:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. avails: Merriam-Webster
  2. avails: Collins English Dictionary
  3. avails: Vocabulary.com
  4. Avails, avails: Wordnik
  5. avails: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. avails: Wiktionary
  7. avails: Dictionary.com
  8. avails: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  9. AVAILS: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  10. avails: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. avails: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. avails: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (avail)

verb:  (transitive, often reflexive) To turn to the advantage of. [(chiefly) with of]
verb:  (transitive) To be of service to.
verb:  (transitive) To promote; to assist.
verb:  (intransitive) To be of use or advantage; to answer or serve the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object.
verb:  (India, Africa, elsewhere proscribed) To provide; to make available; to use or take advantage of (an opportunity or available resource).
noun:  Effect in achieving a goal or aim; purpose, use (now usually in negative constructions).
noun:  (now only US) Proceeds; profits from business transactions.
noun:  (television, advertising) An advertising slot or package.
noun:  (US, politics, journalism) A press avail.
noun:  (British, acting) Non-binding notice of availability for work.
noun:  (oil industry) A readily available stock of oil.
noun:  (obsolete) Benefit; value, profit; advantage toward success.
noun:  (obsolete, poetic) Effort; striving.
adjective:  (colloquial) Clipping of available. [Such as one may avail oneself of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose.]
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