Synonyms for afford
əˈfɔrd, əˈfoʊrdaf·ford

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.6 / 9 votes

1. afford

   Bear is the most general of these words; it is metaphorically to hold up or keep up a burden of care, pain, grief, annoyance, or the like, without sinking, lamenting, or repining. Allow and permit involve large concession of the will; put up with and tolerate imply decided aversion and reluctant withholding of opposition or interference; whispering is allowed by the school-teacher who does not forbid nor censure it; one puts up with the presence of a disagreeable visitor; a state tolerates a religion which it would be glad to suppress. To endure is to bear with strain and resistance, but with conscious power; endure conveys a fuller suggestion of contest and conquest than bear. One may choose to endure the pain of a surgical operation rather than take anesthetics; he permits the thing to come which he must brace himself to endure when it comes. To afford is to be equal to a pecuniary demand, i. e., to be able to bear it. To brook is quietly to put up with provocation or insult. Abide combines the senses of await and endure; as, I will abide the result. Compare ABIDE; SUPPORT.

   Synonyms:
   abide, allow, bear, bear up under, bear with, brook, endure, permit, put up with, submit to, suffer, support, sustain, tolerate, undergo

   Antonyms:
   break, break down, despair, droop, fail, faint, fall, falter, give out, give up, sink, succumb, surrender, yield

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1. afford

   Synonyms:
   produce, supply, give, yield, grant, confer, bestow, impart, administer, extend

   Antonyms:
   withhold, deny, withdraw, retain, stint, grudge

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.4 / 7 votes

1. affordverb

   be able to spare or give up

   "I can't afford to spend two hours with this person"

   Synonyms:
   yield, open, give

2. yield, give, affordverb

   be the cause or source of

   "He gave me a lot of trouble"; "Our meeting afforded much interesting information"

   Synonyms:
   commit, chip in, dedicate, succumb, cave in, relent, impart, pass, pass on, move over, return, establish, reach, concede, have, give in, fall in, make, give, collapse, throw, gift, kick in, feed, break, ease up, apply, cede, grant, knuckle under, founder, devote, hold, buckle under, render, soften, present, sacrifice, yield, open, turn over, leave, give way, consecrate, generate, contribute, pay, hand, bear

3. affordverb

   have the financial means to do something or buy something

   "We can't afford to send our children to college"; "Can you afford this car?"

   Synonyms:
   yield, open, give

4. afford, open, giveverb

   afford access to

   "the door opens to the patio"; "The French doors give onto a terrace"

   Synonyms:
   commit, chip in, dedicate, cave in, collapse, spread, impart, spread out, move over, return, establish, reach, present, have, fall in, make, pay, unfold, grant, throw, gift, kick in, feed, break, pass on, ease up, apply, give, open up, open, founder, devote, hold, pass, render, sacrifice, yield, turn over, leave, give way, consecrate, generate, contribute, hand

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1. • Spend
   • Supply

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. affordverb

   Synonyms:
   supply, furnish, yield, produce

2. affordverb

   Synonyms:
   confer, impart, grant, bestow, offer, lend, give, communicate, spare

3. affordverb

   Synonyms:
   bear the cost or expense of

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1. List of paraphrases for "afford":

   allow, pay, burden, enable, buy, provide

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1. Kenneth Feld:

   We bring things to you that you normally can't see, most people can't afford to go to Sri Lanka.

2. Georgette Mulheir:

   They pay people called' child finders' who go out into the community and essentially put pressure on parents to give them their children, they will tell parents,' you are poor, you can't afford your child's education. Give them to the orphanage. We'll make sure they have an education, have healthcare, have opportunities that you could never give them.'.

3. Betina Evancha:

   When we think about making new products, we're thinking about who can this bring into the Peloton member base who maybe didn't feel comfortable with our current product offerings, now folks who maybe don't have the $ 4,000 treadmill in their budget can afford the Tread experience.

4. Vincent Kaufmann:

   These cases within the management team make our doubts even stronger as to how the board is supervising the bank's management and how the CEO is supervising his colleagues, can we afford an additional year of tensions between the chairman, the CEO, the media and the trust of the employees and the clients? All this makes us think we need to change quicker.

5. Lori Lightfoot:

   Nobody signs up for being a home-schooler at the last minute, we ca n’t forget about how disruptive that remote process is to individual parents who have to work, who ca n’t afford the luxury of staying home.