Definitions from Wiktionary (avail)

▸ verb:  (transitive, often reflexive) To turn to the advantage 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:  1895, Andrew Lang, A Monk of Fife:
▸ 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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