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offering affordances

offering affordances is the present participle and gerund 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 offering affordances

What is offering affordances the present participle and gerund of?
Offering affordances is the present participle and gerund of offer affordances.

Words near offering affordances in the dictionary

  1. offerest
  2. offereth
  3. offerin'
  4. offering
  5. offering a knee
  6. offering affordances
  7. offering formula
  8. offering formulas
  9. offering one's condolences
  10. offering plate
  11. offering up

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