Unaffordable
adjective
Too expensive for most people to buy or pay for.
With these high prices, the cost of living in the city has become unaffordable.
Often appears as...
- unaffordable housing
- unaffordable prices
adjective
Too expensive for most people to buy or pay for.
With these high prices, the cost of living in the city has become unaffordable.
Often appears as...
- unaffordable housing
- unaffordable prices
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Economic Context
Use 'unaffordable' when discussing economic issues like housing, healthcare, and living costs.
Even with two jobs, they found the rent unaffordable.
Pro Tip 2/3Subjective Evaluation
'Unaffordable' can be subjective; what's costly for one may not be for another.
For some, a $200 concert ticket is unaffordable.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Luxury
'Unaffordable' isn't only for luxury items; it can apply to basic needs becoming too expensive.
After the drought, even water became unaffordable for many.
Pro Tip 1/3Economic Context
Use 'unaffordable' when discussing economic issues like housing, healthcare, and living costs.
Even with two jobs, they found the rent unaffordable.
Pro Tip 2/3Subjective Evaluation
'Unaffordable' can be subjective; what's costly for one may not be for another.
For some, a $200 concert ticket is unaffordable.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Luxury
'Unaffordable' isn't only for luxury items; it can apply to basic needs becoming too expensive.
After the drought, even water became unaffordable for many.
Pro Tip 1/3Economic Context
Use 'unaffordable' when discussing economic issues like housing, healthcare, and living costs.
Even with two jobs, they found the rent unaffordable.
Pro Tip 2/3Subjective Evaluation
'Unaffordable' can be subjective; what's costly for one may not be for another.
For some, a $200 concert ticket is unaffordable.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Luxury
'Unaffordable' isn't only for luxury items; it can apply to basic needs becoming too expensive.
After the drought, even water became unaffordable for many.
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The Hidden Costs of...
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Daphne Koller: What...
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The future of...
to build their own voice and data network in a place that has mobile access but which is relatively unaffordable for rural poor communities even more interesting they've used a cooperative legislation to create their own telecommunications cooperative to
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and a way to inexpensively and rapidly produce plastics at scale. Scientists hoped this economical new material would make items that once had been unaffordable accessible to more people. Instead, plastics were pushed into service in World War Two.
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Jonathan Haidt: How...
Levin writes that all over the world, nations are coming to terms with the fact that the social democratic welfare state is turning out to be untenable and unaffordable, dependent upon dubious economics and the demographic model of a bygone era.
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3 ways we can redesign...
gentrification and that became a concern across cities globally as cities kind of recovered from the industrial era of the 1970s became more attractive places to live but then in turn became unaffordable and I think we're presented
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How state budgets are...
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The taboo secret to...
they felt comfortable with this idea of advanced potty training. Imagine if we embraced innovation for sanitation the way we have for, say, solar power. Think about it -- solar power used to be uncommon and unaffordable.
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Why your doctor should...
treatment that remains our most potent weapon against this virus, it was unaffordable to the public sector across Africa. I didn't speak out about the unequal access to these life-saving drugs
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The US is addicted to...
Good thing, bad thing, not quite that simple to explain? So everything about criminal justice reform, and particularly bail reform, is way more complex than it looks, right? So it's easy to have a hashtag that says "end cash bail." Totally right. We have to eliminate unaffordable cash bail forever. We know money isn't what makes people come back,
Video examples
The Hidden Costs of...
the cost of corn accounts for roughly 60 percent of their final price tag in 2007 when the price of tortillas rose to levels that made this everyday food unaffordable for many riots broke out forcing the Mexican government to intervene and control prices situations like these may be on the rise today only 4% of the world's vehicles run on
Video examples
Daphne Koller: What...
This makes education unaffordable for many people. Finally, even for those who do manage to get the higher education, the doors of opportunity might not open. Only a little over half of recent college graduates in the United States who get a higher education
Video examples
The future of...
to build their own voice and data network in a place that has mobile access but which is relatively unaffordable for rural poor communities even more interesting they've used a cooperative legislation to create their own telecommunications cooperative to
Video examples
A brief history of...
and a way to inexpensively and rapidly produce plastics at scale. Scientists hoped this economical new material would make items that once had been unaffordable accessible to more people. Instead, plastics were pushed into service in World War Two.
Video examples
Jonathan Haidt: How...
Levin writes that all over the world, nations are coming to terms with the fact that the social democratic welfare state is turning out to be untenable and unaffordable, dependent upon dubious economics and the demographic model of a bygone era.
Video examples
3 ways we can redesign...
gentrification and that became a concern across cities globally as cities kind of recovered from the industrial era of the 1970s became more attractive places to live but then in turn became unaffordable and I think we're presented
Video examples
How state budgets are...
unaffordable and that's what that's the kind of thing the investment in the young that makes us great allows us to contribute it allows us to do the art the biotechnology the software and all those those magic things and so the
Video examples
The taboo secret to...
they felt comfortable with this idea of advanced potty training. Imagine if we embraced innovation for sanitation the way we have for, say, solar power. Think about it -- solar power used to be uncommon and unaffordable.
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Why your doctor should...
treatment that remains our most potent weapon against this virus, it was unaffordable to the public sector across Africa. I didn't speak out about the unequal access to these life-saving drugs
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American Celebrity
If you're going to have a lifesaving treatment, a curing treatment, but unaffordable, what's the use in having that treatment?
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Jeffrey Sachs
American Economist
The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves.
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Renewable energy is not unaffordable as the fossil fuel giants would like us to believe.
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I'm not cheap but I'm not unaffordable.
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Jagmeet Singh
Canadian Lawyer
Increasingly, we're seeing two worlds in Canada. The world for most Canadians is increasingly unaffordable, involves more precarious work, and is a harder place in which to get by. The second world is an exclusive club for the wealthy and well-connected who get special access and are exempt from rules the rest of us play by.
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Ben Bernanke
American Public Servant
Home purchases that are very highly leveraged or unaffordable subject the borrower and lender to a great deal of risk. Moreover, even in a strong economy, unforeseen life events and risks in local real estate markets make highly leveraged borrowers vulnerable.
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Sara Gideon
American Politician
The skyrocketing costs of insulin are simply unaffordable for too many Maine families, and no one should be forced to choose between life-saving medications and essentials like groceries or clothes for their kids.
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Matt Bevin
American Politician
The fact that we have one out of four people in this state on Medicaid is unsustainable; it's unaffordable, and we need to create jobs in this state, not more government programs to cover people.
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Mark Pocan
American Politician
By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good-paying job.
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Mikhail Varshavski
American Celebrity
If you're going to have a lifesaving treatment, a curing treatment, but unaffordable, what's the use in having that treatment?
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Jeffrey Sachs
American Economist
The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves.
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Caroline Lucas
British Politician
Renewable energy is not unaffordable as the fossil fuel giants would like us to believe.
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Kim Reynolds
American Politician
Obamacare is unaffordable, unworkable and unsustainable.
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Alvin Leung
English Chef
I'm not cheap but I'm not unaffordable.
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