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nonaffordable en · ADJ

Etymology

From non- + affordable.

Meanings

1. Not affordable; unaffordable; too costly.
   • As shown in Exhibit 3-8 and Exhibit 4-2, most nonaffordable debt was held by consumers with low incomes. 1984, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial Law, Personal Bankruptcy, page 973:
   • The nonaffordable programs are allowed to remain in the cycle until an opportunity arises for them to continue to the next phase, creating a backlog of nonaffordable programs at each step. 1985, Charles E. Davis, James P. Lester, Hazardous Waste Politics and Policy, page 41:
   • When we reviewed the HARM last fall, the Navy came to a conclusion that the present HARM configuration and the present program being carried out by Texas Instruments was a nonaffordable program for them and that something had to be done. 1984, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations, Department of Defense Appropriations - Parts 3-4, page 124:
   • Insecure or nonaffordable housing is associated with stress. 2022, David E. Jacobs, Fifty Years of Peeling Away the Lead Paint Problem:

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