[
US
/əˈfɔɹd/
]
[ UK /ɐfˈɔːd/ ]
[ UK /ɐfˈɔːd/ ]
VERB
-
be able to spare or give up
I can't afford to spend two hours with this person -
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? -
afford access to
the door opens to the patio
The French doors give onto a terrace -
be the cause or source of
Our meeting afforded much interesting information
He gave me a lot of trouble
How To Use afford In A Sentence
- Civilian life affords us the luxury of a good deal of deontology — better to let ten guilty men go free, and so on. One Waterboarding Is a Tragedy; A Million Is a Statistic
- Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo
- Most choose to buy in more affordable villages a little way away. Times, Sunday Times
- Copies of this schedule should be constructed in such a fashion that easy access be afforded the data collection process.
- The unhappy helplessness of the man in the foxskin coat evidently afforded him great pleasure. The Schoolmistress and other stories
- After a quarter of an hour, hot buttered toast on a covered hot water plate, with the Staffordshire cottage tea pot in its floral cosy, arrived.
- While things are bad now, I've noticed that blue collar families that had jobs during the boom, but couldn't afford to get into one of the overprices houses are now snatching up foreclosures, fixing them up and living the dream. Current.com top stories
- But either way, placater or elitist, he has headed us down an evil road by deepening a war we couldn ` t afford eight years ago when it started and certainly can ` t afford after the Bush-Cheney fiasco in Iraq. The Student Operated Press
- I can't afford to have bands who won't pull the crowds.
- Therefore, if the vaccine afforded protection for life, there would be a very strong argument in favor of universal vaccination - no chicken pox and no shingles.
