Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To have the financial means for; bear the cost of.
- transitive verb To manage to spare or give up.
- transitive verb To manage or bear without disadvantage or risk to oneself.
- transitive verb To make available or have as a necessary feature; provide.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To promote; further; forward; carry out; accomplish; achieve; manage.
- To give, yield, produce, or confer upon; yield, furnish, supply, as an effect or a result, as of growth, effort, or operation: as, the earth affords grain; trade affords profit; religion affords consolation to the afflicted; the transaction afforded him a good profit; to afford one an agreeable sensation.
- To manage, be able, or have the means (with an infinitive clause); be able to give or bear, spare, or meet the expense of (with an object-noun): always, from the implication of ability, with may or can: as, we can afford to sell cheap; he might afford to gratify us; you can well afford the expense.
- Synonyms To supply, furnish, bestow, communicate, give, impart.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue
- transitive verb To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish.
- transitive verb To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting, expending, with profit, or without loss or too great injury
- transitive verb To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious; -- with an auxiliary, as
can ,could ,might , etc.; to be able or rich enough.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
incur , stand, orbear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious; -- with an auxiliary, as can, could, might, etc.; to be able or rich enough. - verb To
offer ,provide , orsupply , as in selling, granting, expending, with profit, or without loss or too great injury. - verb To give forth; to
supply ,yield , orproduce as the natural result, fruit, orissue . - verb To
give ,grant , orconfer , with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; tofurnish .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be able to spare or give up
- verb be the cause or source of
- verb have the financial means to do something or buy something
- verb afford access to
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The one tax credit the world cannot afford is the child tax credit. if you can't afford the kids ..... don't have them, should become the by word for the world.
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They are ignoring transportation costs as a factor in afford-ability.
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The one thing we certainly cannot afford is leaving the control frauds under the control of fraudulent CEOs.
William K. Black: Foreclose on the Foreclosure Fraudsters, Part 2: Spurious Arguments Against Holding the Fraudsters Accountable William K. Black 2010
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The plan DOES offer a Public Option, it allows people to go into a plan where they are means tested so that all they can afford is taken from them in order to allow them to participate along side whats being done with a capped global budget VA style system for the have-nots.
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When you are already working with limited space, one thing you surely cannot afford is a reduction in the existing floor space.
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The one thing we certainly cannot afford is leaving the control frauds under the control of fraudulent CEOs.
William K. Black: Foreclose on the Foreclosure Fraudsters, Part 2: Spurious Arguments Against Holding the Fraudsters Accountable William K. Black 2010
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The one thing we certainly cannot afford is leaving the control frauds under the control of fraudulent CEOs.
William K. Black: Foreclose on the Foreclosure Fraudsters, Part 2: Spurious Arguments Against Holding the Fraudsters Accountable William K. Black 2010
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The one thing we certainly cannot afford is leaving the control frauds under the control of fraudulent CEOs.
William K. Black: Foreclose on the Foreclosure Fraudsters, Part 2: Spurious Arguments Against Holding the Fraudsters Accountable William K. Black 2010
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The one thing we certainly cannot afford is leaving the control frauds under the control of fraudulent CEOs.
William K. Black: Foreclose on the Foreclosure Fraudsters, Part 2: Spurious Arguments Against Holding the Fraudsters Accountable William K. Black 2010
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If the government would raise the minimum wage to a decent amount mothers can once again afford to stay home with their children while the father works.
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