offer affordances

verb

To give elbow room or leeway (for something to happen).

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Meanings

verboffer affordances (third-person singular simple present offers affordances, present participle offering affordances, simple past and past participle offered affordances)

present singular third person offers affordances · participle present offering affordances · participle past offered affordances · past offered affordances

  1. idiomaticTo give elbow room or leeway (for something to happen).

    The two sides, the political and the erotic, necessarily obscure and misrepresent each other - but in ways that offer important and shifting affordances to all parties in historical gender and class struggle.

    1985, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire, Columbia University Press, page 15
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