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Confirm availability

Meaning in business english, with examples

phraseCore term

In business english, confirm availability means: To check and state clearly that a person, room, service, or item is free at a certain time.

In Turkish: uygunluğu teyit etmek

How it is used

Common in scheduling meetings, booking travel, reserving venues, and planning interviews. Often appears in emails before finalizing arrangements.

Example sentences

  1. Before I send the calendar invite, I need to confirm availability with the legal team and the external auditor.

    Here the phrase means checking whether all required participants are free before fixing the meeting time.

  2. The conference assistant called the hotel to confirm availability for a breakout room on the second afternoon.

    In this example, it refers to verifying that a specific room can still be reserved for that time slot.

Common collocations

  • confirm availability by email
  • confirm room availability
  • confirm staff availability
  • availabilityThe times when someone is free to meet, talk or work on something.
  • rescheduleTo change the date or time of a meeting, call or event that was already planned.

More terms: Deadlines and Scheduling

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