unavailable
/ʌnəˈveɪləb(ə)l
/adjective
1Not able to be used or obtained; not at someone’s disposal: material which is unavailable to the researcher...
- But public transport is still unavailable to many, and often inconvenient when available.
- Their memoirs have supplied a level of authenticity and detail unavailable to previous film-makers.
- Any resources he must commit to shore up his position there are necessarily resources unavailable to him in swing states.
2(Of a person) not free to do something; otherwise occupied: the men were unavailable for work...
- Reid's lawyer at London law firm Fox Williams was unavailable for comment.
- A spokeswoman for Jonathan Cape said the author was unavailable for comment.
- Martin was unavailable for comment last night on the detail of what he had claimed.
Derivatives
unavailableness
- Abaddon
- abadjad
- a bad lot
- a bad (or bitter or nasty) taste in the (or someone's) mouth
- a bad penny always turns up
- a bad workman always blames his tools
- abaft
- a bag of bones
- a bag of tricks
- a bag (or bundle) of nerves
- abaht
- abaisance
- abaiser
- abajour
- Abakan
- abakhweta
- abakhwetha
- abakweta
- abakwetha
- abalienation
- a ball of fire
- abalone
- aband
- abanderado
- abandon