Meanings
comparative more nonaffordable · superlative most nonaffordable
- Not affordable; unaffordable; too costly.
Insecure or nonaffordable housing is associated with stress.
2022, David E. Jacobs, Fifty Years of Peeling Away the Lead Paint Problem3 more examples
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 124As 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 973The 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
Origin
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