Definitions
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- noun The extent to which something is
affordable , as measured by its cost relative to the amount that the purchaser is able to pay.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Kill the bill and provide employment first so the term affordability moves from the realm of the absurd to the real.
Reuters: Top News 2010
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Kill the bill and provide employment first so the term affordability moves from the realm of the absurd to the real.
Reuters: Top News 2010
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I grew up in a community where "affordability" was a code word for low income and high pollution.
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins: On Your 40th Anniversary, Thank You EPA Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins 2010
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I grew up in a community where "affordability" was a code word for low income and high pollution.
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins: On Your 40th Anniversary, Thank You EPA Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins 2010
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I grew up in a community where "affordability" was a code word for low income and high pollution.
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins: On Your 40th Anniversary, Thank You EPA Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins 2010
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"We want to see longer term affordability for his existing portfolios."
Developer Plans Harlem Building Joseph De Avila 2011
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The World Health Organization ranks the US's healthcare system # 77th in affordability, accessibility and efficiency.
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… Some Americans argue that affordability is a luxury reserved for the rich.
Think Progress » Huckabee Inadvertently Argues For Health Insurance Mandate: ‘Everybody Has To Live’ 2010
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Unless we find a way to lock in affordability, land use around stations will intensely gentrify neighborhoods, and poor people will be continually pushed farther and farther out to the suburbs and less well served urban areas.
Energy, Transportation, and Land Use Patterns « PubliCola 2010
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"We want to see longer term affordability for his existing portfolios."
Developer Plans Harlem Building Joseph De Avila 2011
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