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offer affordances

offer affordances verb: to give elbow room or leeway (for something to happen).

Verb

offer affordances (third-person singular simple present offers affordances, present participle offering affordances, simple past and past participle offered affordances)

  1. (idiomatic) To give elbow room or leeway (for something to happen).
    • The two sides, the political and the erotic, necessarily obscure and misrepresent each other - but in ways that offer important and shifting affordances to all parties in historical gender and class struggle.1985, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire, Columbia University Press, page 15

Forms of offer affordances

third-person singular presentoffers affordances
present participleoffering affordances
past participleoffered affordances
pastoffered affordances

Questions about offer affordances

What does offer affordances mean?
Offer affordances means to give elbow room or leeway (for something to happen).
What part of speech is offer affordances?
Offer affordances is a verb.
What is the past tense of offer affordances?
The past tense of offer affordances is offered affordances.

Words near offer affordances in the dictionary

  1. offensivenesses
  2. offensives
  3. offensivity
  4. offer
  5. offer a knee
  6. offer affordances
  7. offer curve
  8. offer curves
  9. offer of proof
  10. offer one can't refuse
  11. offer one's condolences

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