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
The legal definition of Justification is An answer or defence to an allegation of wrongful conduct that the act or omission, though admittedly committed, was not wrongful in all the circumstances. Justification is a defence in both criminal cases as well as tort cases. In Perka v The Queen, a criminal law case, Canada's Supreme Court used these words: A justification challenges the wrongfulness of an action which technically constitutes a crime.