affect

Definition

Examples

The new tax policy will affect small businesses in particular.

Word Family

Synonyms

• influencea power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc
• impactthe striking of one body against another
• altercause to change; make different; cause a transformation

Collocations

• Easy affect your health
  to affect your health, meaning to have an effect upon
• Medium affect sales performance negatively
  to affect sales performance negatively, meaning to have an effect upon
• Hard adversely affect bottom-line profitability
  describing adversely affect bottom-line profitability (in an adverse manner)
• Very Hard profoundly affect posterity
  describing profoundly affect posterity (to a great depth psychologically)