AFFORDABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does affordable mean? 

• AFFORDABLE (adjective)
  The adjective AFFORDABLE has 1 sense:

1. that you have the financial means for

  Familiarity information: AFFORDABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AFFORDABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

That you have the financial means for

Synonyms:

affordable; low-cost; low-priced

Context example:

low-cost housing

Similar:

cheap; inexpensive (relatively low in price or charging low prices)

Derivation:

afford (have the financial means to do something or buy something)

 Context examples 

The Rutgers University-led and NSF-funded discovery could lead to more efficient and affordable algae-based biofuels and combat climate change from fossil fuel burning.

(Scientists discover key factors in how some algae harness solar energy, National Science Foundation)

Stanford University researchers have developed an affordable, durable battery that could harness this so-called blue energy.

(Researchers develop technology to harness energy from mixing of freshwater and seawater, National Science Foundation)

Filling this “cooling gap” links with the SDGs on affordable and clean energy, poverty reduction, health and wellbeing, and sustainable cities and communities.

(Billions at risk from heat stress at home, SciDev.Net)

If an affordable product like this was available, foraging could become even more popular and possibly safer.

(New Test Identifies Poisonous Mushrooms, Agricultural Research Service)

The researchers are hopeful that the study will help catalyse scale-up of automated chlorination technologies, which could contribute to global progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goal 6.1 for universal access to safe, affordable drinking water.

(Chlorine dispensers fitted to public taps cut child diarrhoea, SciDev.Net)

The multidisciplinary research group ECsens of the University of Granada, which has 20 years’ experience in the design of electronic instrumentation and sensors, has been working with mobile phones for the last ten years as an affordable tool for chemical (bio) analysis.

(Scientists design platform to conduct chemical analysis using a smartphone, University of Granada)

While this study shows a proof-of-principle, the researchers say that as technology improves and becomes more affordable, it is feasible that a comprehensive health evaluation using a battery of protein models derived from a single blood sample could be offered as routine by health services.

(Study highlights potential for ‘liquid health check’ to predict disease risk, University of Cambridge)

You have been learning how to manage money, how to find affordable funds to borrow when you needed them instead of taking cash advances from credit cards, and the importance of having a solid credit rating

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The authors note that timely policies to make air conditioning technologies efficient and affordable, and to improve the design of residential areas in order to reduce heat island effects, would benefit both the climate and development.

(Billions at risk from heat stress at home, SciDev.Net)

Universal access to electricity and adequate and affordable housing are prerequisites to accessing cooling technologies, and are closely linked to meeting several of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) mandated by the UN, the study notes.

(Billions at risk from heat stress at home, SciDev.Net)