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afford

/əˈfɔːd/

US pronunciation

American sound/əˈfɔːd/

əˈfɔːd

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 2nd syllable stress
Vowel: Aw vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

ə - ˈfɔːd -> afford

Myanmar meaning

(v) တတ်နိုင်သည်။ အကုန်အကျခံနိုင်သည်။ ပေးနိုင်သည်။ (ဆုံးရှုံးမှု စသော အခြေအနေ တစ်စုံ တစ်ခုကို ) ခံနိုင်စွမ်းရှိသည်။ (တစ်စုံတစ်ရာ) ပြုလုပ်နိုင်သည်။ (အခွင့်အလမ်းစသည်) ပေးသည်။ (v[sg]) တတ်နိုင်

Full entry

afford / ǝ'fↄ:d / v

၁။ (usu with can, could or be able to) တတ်နိုင်သည်။ အကုန်အကျခံနိုင်သည်။ ပေးနိုင်သည်။ They walked because they couldn't afford (to take) a taxi. ❍ You can't afford (ie are not in a position to spend) £90. ❍ I'd love to go on vacation but I can't afford the time. ❍ we would give more examples if we could afford the space.
၂။ (usu with can or could esp. in negative sentences or questions) (ဆုံးရှုံးမှု စသော အခြေအနေ တစ်စုံ တစ်ခုကို ) ခံနိုင်စွမ်းရှိသည်။ (တစ်စုံတစ်ရာ) ပြုလုပ်နိုင်သည်။ I mustn't annoy my boss because I can't afford to lose my job (ie must not take the risk of losing my job). ❍ You can ill afford to criticize others when you behave so badly yourself. ❍ The firm cannot afford any more bad publicity.
၃။ (fml ) (အခွင့်အလမ်းစသည်) ပေးသည်။ The tree afforded (us) welcome shade. ❍ The scholarship afforded him the opportunity to study in Paris.
❏ affordable / ǝ'fↄ:dǝbl / adj တတ်နိုင်သော။ လက်ခံနိုင် သော။ affordable prices ❍ an affordable risk.

More examples

I’m not sure how they are able to afford such expensive holidays.
We need a bigger house, but we just can’t afford the rent.
[can/can’t afford to do something] : The company simply cannot afford to pay overtime.
Scientists are going abroad, taking with them skills that our country can ill afford (=cannot afford) to lose.
I’m so busy, I can rarely afford the luxury of a restful weekend.
[can/can’t/be unable to afford to do something] : No politician can afford to ignore the power of television.
[afford protection/shelter] : The vaccination also affords protection against polio.
[afford someone something] : Letters survive that afford us a glimpse into his everyday life.

Synonyms

have enough money, pay for, have the funds for, manage to pay for, find the money for, come up with the money for, meet the expense of, allow, be able to, be disposed to, bear, bestow, furnish, give, grant, have enough for, have the means for, impart, incur, manage, offer, present, produce, provide, render, spare, stand, supply, support, sustain, yield

Antonyms

conceal, deny, hide, refuse, reject, take, take away

Cross references

have enough money pay for have the funds for manage to pay for find the money for come up with the money for meet the expense of allow be able to be disposed to bear bestow furnish give grant have enough for have the means for impart incur manage offer present produce provide render spare stand supply

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