Afford

Verb

 * 1) 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.
 * 2) To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting, expending, with profit, or without loss or too great injury.
 * 3) To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue.
 * 4) To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish.

Adverbs for Afford
undoubtedly; scarcely; indiscriminately; abundantly: inadvertently.

Thesaurus
accommodate; accommodate with; accord; administer; allot; allow; amount to; award; be loaded; bear; bear the expense; bestow; bestow on; bring; bring in; clothe; come to; come up to; command money; communicate; confer; contribute; cost; deal; deal out; dish out; dispense; dole; dole out; donate; endow; endure; extend; favor with; fetch; fill; fill up; find; fork out; fund; furnish; gift; gift with; give; give forth; give freely; give out; give up; grant; gross; hand out; have independent means; have means; have money; have the wherewithal; heap; heap upon; help to; impart; indulge with; invest; issue; keep; lavish; lavish upon; let have; maintain; make available; make provision for; manage; mete; mete out; mount up to; net; offer; pay; pay off; pour; pour on; prepare; present; produce; proffer; provide; provide for; rain; recruit; render; replenish; return; run into; run to; sacrifice; sell for; serve; set one back; shell out; shower; shower down upon; slip; snow; spare; spare the price; stand; stock; store; subsidize; supply; support; tender; total up to; undergo; vouchsafe; well afford; yield

Alternative forms

 * afoord, affoord, affoard, affowrd

Etymology
From afōrthen,  geforðian, forðian:, from forð:. The prefix ge- has no well defined sense. See forth.

Derived terms

 * affordance
 * offer affordances

Translations

 * Bulgarian: позволявам си, имам средства да купя
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: dovolit si
 * German: sich leisten


 * Norwegian: tåle, ha råd til
 * Slovene: si privoščiti
 * Welsh: fforddio


 * Bulgarian: давам, доставям, принасям (полза)


 * Norwegian: skaffe