LINK / CITE ADD TO WORD LIST. noun. The definition of availability is whether someone or something can be accessed or used. An example of availability is when a classmate can meet to discuss a project on a certain date.
excuse - a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.; he kept finding excuses to stay; every day he had a new alibi for not getting a job; his transparent self-justification was unacceptable
excuse (third-person singular simple present excuses, present participle excusing, simple past and past participle excused) (transitive) To forgive; to pardon. I excused him his transgressions. Shakespeare I must excuse what cannot be amended. Archbishop Sharp A man's persuasion that a thing is duty, will not excuse him from guilt in practising it, if really and indeed it be against God's law.