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# affordable

«affordable» in Mova's school dictionary: **cheap enough for people to be able to buy or pay for** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (affordable, more affordable, most affordable)

### meaning for a pupil

Affordable means cheap enough for people to be able to buy or pay for. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affordable/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and money lessons it is about prices of food, homes and toys. In news it appears in "affordable housing". Phrases: affordable housing, affordable prices, more affordable.

### examples

- This bike is more affordable than that one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affordable/#x1)
- The town needs more affordable homes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affordable/#x2)
- Fresh fruit should be affordable for every family. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affordable/#x3)
- We looked for an affordable holiday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affordable/#x4)
- Second-hand books are very affordable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affordable/#x5)
- Prices became less affordable this year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affordable/#x6)

### note

From afford + -able. Opposite: unaffordable, expensive. In maths problems, "affordable" means the price is not more than the money you have: with £20, a £15 toy is affordable, a £25 one is not.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «affordable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affordable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.