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Availability

Meaning in business english, with examples

/əˌveɪləˈbɪləti/nounCore term

In business english, availability means: The times when someone is free to meet, talk or work on something.

In Turkish: müsaitlik, uygun zaman, müsait olunan saatler

How it is used

Used when arranging meetings: 'Please let me know your availability next week', 'I've checked everyone's availability.' It is also used for products and stock: 'subject to availability'.

Example sentences

  1. Could you share your availability for a 30-minute call on Wednesday or Thursday?

  2. Based on everyone's availability, Tuesday at 11 seems to work best.

Common collocations

  • share your availability
  • check availability
  • limited availability
  • subject to availability
  • calendar inviteAn electronic invitation to a meeting or call that is sent through a calendar tool and adds the event to the guests' calendars when they accept it.
  • rescheduleTo change the date or time of a meeting, call or event that was already planned.
  • time zoneOne of the areas of the world that use the same standard time; colleagues in different time zones start and finish work at different hours.
  • bandwidthIn office talk, the time, energy or capacity that a person or team has available to take on more work.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

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