afford

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
afford/əˈfɔːd/

▶verb

• 1 (can/could afford) have sufficient money, time, or means for.

  ■ be able to do something without risk of adverse consequences.

• 2 provide (an opportunity or facility).

– origin OE geforthian ‘promote, perform’, later ‘manage to do’, from ge- (prefix implying completeness) + forthian ‘to further’, from forth.