Finance vs Afford - What's the difference?
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The management of money and other assets.
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(usually in plural) Monetary resources, especially those of a public entity or a company.
To provide or obtain funding for a transaction or undertaking; to ; to support.
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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.
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To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting, expending, with profit, or without loss or too great injury.
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To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue.
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To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish.
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As verbs the difference between finance and afford
is that finance is while afford is 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.finance
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Noun
(en noun)End of the peer show, passage=Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.}}
Derived terms
* corporate finance * financial * part-finance (verb ) * personal finance * public financeExternal links
* (wikipedia "finance")Verb
(financ)- His parents financed his college education.
- He financed his home purchase through a local credit union.
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afford
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Alternative forms
* afoord, affoord, affoard, affowrd (obsolete)Verb
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