afford

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To have the financial means for; bear the cost of: not able to afford a new car.
2. v. To manage to spare or give up: can't afford an hour for lunch.
3. v. To manage or bear without disadvantage or risk to oneself: can afford to be tolerant.
4. v. To make available; provide: a sport affording good exercise; a tree that affords ample shade.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To promote; further; forward; carry out; accomplish; achieve; manage.
2. To give, yield, produce, or confer upon; yield, furnish, supply, as an effect or a result, as of growth, effort, or operation: as, the earth affords grain; trade affords profit; religion affords consolation to the afflicted; the transaction afforded him a good profit; to afford one an agreeable sensation.
3. To manage, be able, or have the means (with an infinitive clause); be able to give or bear, spare, or meet the expense of (with an object-noun): always, from the implication of ability, with may or can: as, we can afford to sell cheap; he might afford to gratify us; you can well afford the expense.
4. Synonyms To supply, furnish, bestow, communicate, give, impart.

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

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

WordNet 3.0

1. v. be able to spare or give up
2. v. be the cause or source of
3. v. have the financial means to do something or buy something
4. v. afford access to