afforder
afforder noun: one who, or that which, affords or makes available.
Noun
afforder (plural afforders)
- One who, or that which, affords or makes available.
- I do not include under the name labour such work, if work it be called, as is done by writers and afforders of “guidance,” an occupation which, let alone the vanity of the thing, cannot be called by the same name with the real labour, the exhausting, stiffening, stupefying toil of many kinds of...1850, John Stuart Mill, The Negro Question
- One who can afford to pay for something (but does not necessarily purchase it).
Forms of afforder
| plural | afforders |
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Origin of afforder
From afford + -er.
Questions about afforder
- What does afforder mean?
- Afforder means one who, or that which, affords or makes available.
- What part of speech is afforder?
- Afforder is a noun.
- What is the plural of afforder?
- The plural of afforder is afforders.
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