To be of service to.
To turn to the advantage of.
To provide; to make available; to use or take advantage of (an opportunity or available resource).
To promote; to assist.
To be of use or advantage; to answer or serve the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object.
An advertising slot or package.
Effect in achieving a goal or aim; purpose, use (now usually in negative constructions).
A press avail.
A readily available stock of oil.
Non-binding notice of availability for work.
Proceeds; profits from business transactions.
To be deserving or worthy.
To deserve, to earn.
Usually in the plural form the merits: the substantive rightness or wrongness of a legal argument, a lawsuit, etc., as opposed to technical matters such as the admissibility of evidence or points of legal procedure; (by extension) the overall good or bad quality, or rightness or wrongness, of some other thing.
A claim to commendation or a reward.
A mark or token of approbation or to recognize excellence.
Something deserving or worthy of positive recognition or reward.
The sum of all the good deeds that a person does which determines the quality of the person's next state of existence and contributes to the person's growth towards enlightenment.