Unavailable for usually refers to purpose, time, or activity. Unavailable to usually refers to a person or group who cannot access or contact something.
Use unavailable for when talking about purpose, duties, or time slots. Use unavailable to when something cannot be accessed, used, or contacted by a person or group.
These forms are not interchangeable. Choose the construction by meaning, not by which preposition appears most often.
Use unavailable for when someone or something cannot be used for a particular activity or during a period of time.
Use unavailable to when a person or group cannot reach, use, or obtain something.
Unavailable for can also describe whether someone is free for a meeting, conversation, or relationship.
The same subject can take different constructions because each sentence answers a different question.
Some combinations appear in real text but do not mean what learners often assume.
Use for when referring to an activity, purpose, or time.
✕ The room is unavailable to meetings. ✓ The room is unavailable for meetings.Use to when naming the people who cannot access something.
✕ The file is unavailable for customers. ✓ The file is unavailable to customers.In some sentences, another preposition may describe place or time rather than follow unavailable.
✓ The service is unavailable in some countries.Choose the expression that matches the intended meaning.
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Yes. It can mean someone is not free for meetings, calls, or relationships.
Yes. It often describes features, websites, or documents that users cannot access.
Yes, but in usually introduces a place or situation, not the main adjective pattern.
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