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# unavailable

«unavailable» in Mova's school dictionary: **Not able to be got, bought or used right now** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (unavailable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Not able to be got, bought or used right now. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unavailable/#m1)

2) (of a person) Not free to meet, talk or help, because they are busy or away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unavailable/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Seen on websites, phone messages and shop shelves: «This item is currently unavailable». At school a teacher may be unavailable during a meeting. In maths problems, an unavailable item is left out of the total or choices.

### examples

- Sorry, that size is unavailable at the moment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unavailable/#x1)
- The head teacher is unavailable until after lunch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unavailable/#x2)
- The game was unavailable because the server was down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unavailable/#x3)
- Fresh strawberries are unavailable in winter here. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unavailable/#x4)
- The doctor was unavailable, so we saw the nurse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unavailable/#x5)
- If 3 of the 10 bikes are unavailable, only 7 can be hired. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unavailable/#x6)

### note

un- + available. Takes «an»: «an unavailable book». Often with «currently» or «temporarily». Do not confuse with «unaffordable» (too expensive): unavailable means you cannot get it at all just now.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unavailable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unavailable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.