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offered affordances

offered affordances is the simple past and past participle of offer affordances.

Meaning of offer affordances

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

Questions about offered affordances

What is offered affordances the simple past and past participle of?
Offered affordances is the simple past and past participle of offer affordances.

Words near offered affordances in the dictionary

  1. offer wanted
  2. offer'd
  3. offerable
  4. offered
  5. offered a knee
  6. offered affordances
  7. offered one's condolences
  8. offered up
  9. offeree
  10. offerees
  11. offerer

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