Synonym: furnish, supply, yield. Similar words: can afford, afford to, effort, staff, gaffe, affair, affect, traffic. Meaning: [ə'fɔːd] 
v. 1. be able to spare or give up 2. be the cause or source of 3. have the financial means to do something or buy something 4. afford access to.
v. 1. be able to spare or give up 2. be the cause or source of 3. have the financial means to do something or buy something 4. afford access to. 
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151. Elderly people may die of hypothermia if they cannot afford to heat their homes.
152. If he can't afford a good lawyer, he doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning the case.
153. The crunch is that we can't afford to go abroad this year.
154. At this rate we won't ever be able to afford a holiday.
155. Someone with an income of $34,895 can afford this loan.
156. We can ill afford to lose another member of staff.sentencedict.com/afford.html
157. The house came up for sale and the couple realised they could just about afford it.
158. Jill said she couldn't afford new clothes, yet in the same breath described the new outfIt'she'd just bought.
159. It is easy to fall into the trap of taking out a loan you cannot afford.
160. You can't afford to let any job go by when you've been out of work for so long.
161. We can no longer afford to carry people who don't work as hard as they should.
162. A lot of families cannot even afford to buy the basic necessities of life.
163. I'd love to go on holiday but I can't afford the time.
164. Some children miss out because their parents can't afford to pay for school trips.
165. I was losing weight which I could ill afford to lose.
166. If they can't afford such a big house, they'll just have to lower their sights a little.
167. None of us can afford it separately, so let's pool our resources.
168. I've had to shelve my plans to buy a new car, because I can't afford it at the moment.
169. I'm very sorry that I can only afford to chip in a few dollars this time.
170. He told me that the firm could not afford to pay such large salaries.
171. These people can scarcely afford to buy food, still less luxury goods like perfume.
172. Don't reckon on going abroad this summer, we may not be able to afford it.
173. The government has been pouring money into inefficient state-owned industries and the country can no longer afford it.
174. They are stronger than us and can afford to bide their time.
175. I wish I could afford to dine off fresh meat every day.
176. Why does she steal things when she could easily afford to buy them?
177. The British could afford to reduce defence spending in peacetime without excessive risk.
178. This issue was of such importance that we could not afford to ignore it.
179. My heart sank when I realized we couldn't afford the new house.
180. The ANC could not afford to lower its guard until everything had been carried out.
More similar words: can afford, afford to, effort, staff, gaffe, affair, affect, traffic, baffled, affable, afflatus, affinity, affliction, word, cord, affectation, order, affectionate, border, cordon, in order, ordeal, record, decaffeinated, discord, in a word, cordial, state of affairs, border on, ordinary.