Afford
[ə'fɔːd] or [ə'fɔrd]
Definition
(verb.) be able to spare or give up; 'I can't afford to spend two hours with this person'.
(verb.) afford access to; 'the door opens to the patio'; 'The French doors give onto a terrace'.
(verb.) have the financial means to do something or buy something; 'We can't afford to send our children to college'; 'Can you afford this car?'.
Edited by Hugh--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords fruit; the sea affords an abundant supply of fish.
(v. t.) To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish; as, a good life affords consolation in old age.
(v. t.) To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting, expending, with profit, or without loss or too great injury; as, A affords his goods cheaper than B; a man can afford a sum yearly in charity.
(v. t.) 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.
Edited by Juanita
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Supply, furnish, yield, produce.[2]. Confer, impart, grant, bestow, offer, lend, give, communicate, spare.[3]. Bear the cost or expense of.
Editor: Omar
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Produce, supply, give, yield, grant, confer, bestow, impart, administer,extend
ANT:Withhold, deny, withdraw, retain, stint, grudge
Typist: Miguel
Definition
v.t. to yield or produce: to be able to sell to expend or to bear the expense of.
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Examples
- It is I who have been in fault: I ought to have seen that I could not afford to live in this way. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Here is a waste of land that might afford subsistence for so many of the human species. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- But with my three daughters, Emma, Jane, and Caroline--and my aged father--I cannot afford to be selfish. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- We were occupying ceased to afford comfortable quarters; and further orders not reaching us, we began to look about to remedy the hardship. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Those other parts of the produce of land, however, which afterwards afford rent, do not afford it always. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Rent, even where coals afford one, has generally a smaller share in their price than in that of most other parts of the rude produce of land. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is needless to say that I was quite unable to afford him the information he wanted. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The next day he threw such disguise over his person as a cloak afforded, and revisited Evadne. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Henry could not have afforded her such a house. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I wish we could have afforded some of the plate, Rawdon, the wife continued sentimentally. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It was found that the top of the levee afforded a good road to march upon. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A complete set was a very valuable gift, and could only be afforded by the rich. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Beneath a cluster of these which afforded perfect concealment from wandering air scouts, we lay down to sleep--for me the first time in many hours. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The archipelago, though not rich in insects, afforded several new genera, each island with its distinct kinds. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Barren timber for building is of great value in a populous and well-cultivated country, and the land which produces it affords a considerable rent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Human food seems to be the only produce of land, which always and necessarily affords some rent to the landlord. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- At the same time it affords a simple method of school instruction. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- If it affords at any time much less than this, other trades will soon draw so much capital from it as will again raise that profit. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is this impression, then, or determination, which affords me the idea of necessity. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It affords me the greatest pleasure to record now my agreeable disappointment in respect to his character. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The first is that portion which is reserved for immediate consumption, and of which the characteristic is, that it affords no revenue or profit. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The Edison concentrating plant has been sketched in the briefest outline with a view of affording merely a bare idea of the great work of its projector. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It may be of some use to the public, by affording an easy proof of the prosperous condition of the country. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In affording you this interview, the young lady has taken a natural, perhaps, but still a very imprudent step. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I rose to take my leave, and to thank Mrs. Clements for the friendly readiness she had shown in affording me information. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Occupation alone, if I could deliver myself up to it, would be capable of affording an opiate to my sleepless sense of woe. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- These words appeared to be addressed to the young lady, and were perhaps uttered with the view of affording Nancy time to recover herself. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Shall we then rest contented with these two relations of contiguity and succession, as affording a complete idea of causation? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
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