Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. That can be afforded: affordable housing; an affordable risk.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Capable of being afforded, spared, yielded, or borne.
Wiktionary
- adj. able to be afforded
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. That may be afforded.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. that you have the financial means for
Etymologies
- afford + -able (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The fact that we have the phrase affordable homes is a terrible indictment," he says - it shows most homes are unaffordable.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“We are going to hear the term affordable healthcare bantered around a lot.”
“Affordable housing, giving loans to people that could not make the payments. $100,000 to $500,000 go beyond what I call affordable housing.”
“And making homes affordable is vital for most Americans who need home equity to supplement their meager 401 (k) balances.”
“Making quality health care more universal and affordable is the best argument and it is an argument that resonates especially well during hard economic times, when few people feel secure.”
Matthew Yglesias » You Can’t Create Jobs by “Focusing” on the Economy
“Every Rolf wheel, from the most expensive to the most affordable, is laced by hand in Eugene, Oregon.”
Interbike Tech Gallery: Hot new wheels from Rolf, Ritchey, and DT Swiss
“Our system would require substantial funding and investments in affordable housing and mainstream service systems.”
City Audit Shows Major Shortage of Services for Homeless « PubliCola
“What specifically is meant by "substantial funding and investments in affordable housing and mainstream service systems", and is the council ready to act?”
City Audit Shows Major Shortage of Services for Homeless « PubliCola
“Mr. Fish: you state "Unfortunately, the federal government has not invested in affordable housing for a long time".”
The affordable-Pearl-District-liquor-store tax break (Jack Bog's Blog)
“If you can do carbon capture and storage with gas, then it can be a long term affordable source of green electricity, says Smith.”
The Guardian: Shell's outgoing UK chairman has seen oil firm's role shift in a changing climate
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘affordable’.
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POL - presidential debates
Some of the catchwords of several presidential debates (Obama-Romney 2012 Denver debate's transcript fully included)
preexist, crosstalk, figure skate, preexisting, spending cut, preconceive, zinger, excruciate, ask over, miniaturize, food stamp, Medicare and 150 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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cost
price
affordable, low-cost, surprisingly affo..., ridiculously low, economical, pocket-friendly, dirt-cheap, won't cost you th..., won't burn your p..., shockingly low, never before price, all time lowest r... and 11 more...
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