Definition of Afford

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Afford

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Afford Quotations

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
Mother Teresa

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
Winston Churchill

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Henry David Thoreau

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I can't afford to die; I'd lose too much money.
George Burns

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
James Madison

When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.
Henny Youngman

Very few people can afford to be poor.
George Bernard Shaw

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
George Bernard Shaw

Afford Translations

afford in Spanish is permitirse

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