Afloat

/əˈfloʊt/ adjective

Floating on water or able to stay above water; also means having enough money or resources to keep operating.

From a- (on) + float. The nautical sense developed first in the 1500s, and the financial sense came later as metaphor for staying 'above water' financially.

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