to be able to do or spare something, esp without incurring financial difficulties or without risk of undesirable consequences
we can afford to buy a small house
I can afford to give you one of my chess sets
we can't afford to miss this play
2.
to give, yield, or supply
the meeting afforded much useful information
Derived forms
affordable (afˈfordable)
adjective
affordability (afˌfordaˈbility)
noun
Word origin
Old English geforthian to further, promote, from forthforth; the Old English prefix ge- was later reduced to a-, and the modern spelling (C16) is influenced by words beginning aff-