adjective | affordable | Broad-band access to the Internet became more affordable at the beginning of the millennium. |
verb | afford | Lucinda has taken so much leave this year that she can't afford to miss another day's work. |
noun | affordability | We looked into the affordability of placing a scanner at each designer's desk. |
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verb | initiate | The company will initiate its new products at the beginning of the year. |
noun | initiative | The manager, knowing how concerned his employees were, took the initiative to provide training for them on the new equipment. |
noun | initiation | As an initiation into the sales field, Mr. Jenkins was given the most problematic customer's account. |
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adverb | physically | The vagrant had to be physically removed from the building. |
adjective | physical | The physical presence of a computer engineer is vastly superior to telephone tech support. |
noun | physique | We need a model with a proportional physique. |
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verb | provide | The company provides a five-year warranty on its products. |
noun | provider | As your provider of network services, I promise to give you the best prices and service. |
noun | provision | Our provisions of supplies should last to the end of the quarter. |
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verb | recur | We don't want that problem to recur every month. |
noun | recurrence | Every recurrence of the same problem costs us money. |
adjective | recurring | Recurring problems waste time and money. |
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verb | reduce | Buying in bulk can help to reduce costs. |
noun | reduction | -Many voters want to see some reduction of the deficit. - There is a 20 percent reduction on selecteditems during this sale. |
adjective | reducible | Although our system is working at capacity, the amount of information being processed is not reducible. |