Afford

Definition

afford / ǝ'fↄ:d / v ၁။ (usu with can, could or be able to) တတ္ႏိုင္သည္။ အကုန္အက်ခံႏိုင္သည္။ ေပးႏိုင္သည္။ 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) (ဆံုး႐ံႈးမႈ စေသာ အေျခအေန တစ္စံု တစ္ခုကို ) ခံႏိုင္စြမ္းရိွသည္။ (တစ္စံုတစ္ရာ) ျပဳလုပ္ႏိုင္သည္။ 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 ) (အခြင့္အလမ္းစသည္) ေပးသည္။ The tree afforded (us) welcome shade. ❍ The scholarship afforded him the opportunity to study in Paris. ❏ affordable / ǝ'fↄ:dǝbl / adj တတ္ႏိုင္ေသာ။ လက္ခံႏိုင္ ေသာ။ affordable prices ❍ an affordable risk.

Examples

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