avails

Serves a purpose

Avails is the plural of avail, meaning the proceeds or benefits from something, especially money generated from a sale or transaction: The avails from the estate auction were divided among the heirs.

The term appears most often in legal, financial, or formal business contexts.

As a verb form, avails means succeeds or helps: Nothing avails against such determination.

usefulness

utility

Functional worth or purpose

  • valueImportance or price
  • worthDegree of importance
  • usePut into service

practicality · effectiveness · serviceability · efficacy · purpose · function · applicability · helpfulness · advantage · merit

benefit

advantage

Favorable position or circumstance

support · relief · blessing · boon · favor · gift · subsidy · grant · endowment · welfare

profit

gain

Positive return received

yield · proceeds · dividend · windfall · margin · surplus · income · takings · receipts · remuneration

opportunity

chance

Likelihood of occurrence

break · occasion · moment · window · doorway · gateway · avenue · recourse · means · leverage

Categories
Opposites
effectiveness/utility

availsfails

Does not succeed

hinders · impedes · obstructs · frustrates · thwarts

FINANCIAL BENEFIT (noun sense: proceeds/profits)

availsoutlay

Money paid for something

outlays · expenditures · costs · expenses · losses

Phrases
Family

available, avail, unavailable, availability, unavailability, availed, availing

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