0 past simple and past participle of afford --
1 to be able to buy or do something because you have enough money or time: --
2 to allow someone to have something pleasant or necessary: --
[ + two objects ] Her seat afforded her an uninterrupted view of the stage.
The hut afforded little protection from the elements.
It requires, at a minimum, that competent patients receive information and are afforded the opportunity for choice regarding healthcare offered to them.
We didn't use them every night, but we did break them more often than we could actually have afforded in real life.
We await details of what support will be afforded to workforce development under any new infrastructure.
In approaching these questions, indirect assistance may be afforded by consideration of other forms of personal behaviour with a moral component.
The workers stayed in the vicinity of their factories which may have afforded them some protection against police reprisals.
This enrichment of the phrase-structural inventory may have afforded analytic success but it also raised questions as to its explanatory adequacy.
The pupils relished the independence afforded by access to twelve computer workstations, and worked very hard.
If privacy is afforded, people are able to exercise choice over what they do without encroaching on other residents.
