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
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
Winston Churchill
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
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Henry David Thoreau
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau
In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
Barack Obama
If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.
Newt Gingrich
A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
William Feather
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
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
James A. Baldwin
Afford Translations
afford in Spanish is permitirse
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