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What does afford mean?

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Verb
  1. To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious;—with an auxiliary, as can, could, might, etc.; to be able or rich enough.
  2. To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting, expending, with profit, or without loss or too great injury.
  3. To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue.
  4. To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish.
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Because he was low on cash, Amos couldn't afford to buy another batch right away.
If you need to escape an oppressive regime, can you afford to advertise that fact by filling out an asylum claim in the street?
I couldn't afford to pay my tuition, I couldn't afford my rent, and I could barely scrounge up enough money to buy food.
The airline company explained it had run out of money and couldn't afford severance payments.
We just could not afford either the rapidity or the nature of some of his political experiments.
At first I couldn't afford to pay real models, but now I have about 15 pals who pose for me.

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