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afforded

[ uh-fawr-did ]

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adjective

offered or made available; provided:
Here at our hotel, you can relax and gaze out over the city while enjoying every afforded comfort.

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of afford.

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Other Word Forms

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Word History and Origins

Origin of afforded¹

First recorded in 1730–40, for an earlier sense; afford ( def ) + -ed ²( def ) for the adjective; afford ( def ) + -ed ¹( def ) for the verb

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In Lee’s film, viewers weren’t afforded as much time alone with Wai-Tung’s Taiwanese parents.

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So it's really hard to understand how that could amount to a reasonable opportunity to seek due process protection if you're afforded not even 24 hours notice of your deportation.

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The senator said he "must be afforded due process under the law and immediately released from detention".

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The two-year contract offers him a level of security players of his age are not often afforded.

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“We’ve never had a client who was disappeared mid proceedings and not afforded his due process to see his asylum case through,” Shepard said.

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