affords
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Definitions ofaffords
- 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.
Example: "I think we can afford the extra hour it will take. We can only afford to buy a small car at the moment."
- To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting, expending, with profit, or without loss or too great injury.
Example: "A affords his goods cheaper than B."
- To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue.
Example: "Grapes afford wine. Olives afford oil. The earth affords fruit. The sea affords an abundant supply of fish."
- To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish.
Example: "A good life affords consolation in old age."
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