Meaning of wealth in English

wealth

noun

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/welθ/

wealth noun (MONEY)

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B2 [ U ]

a large amount of money or valuable possessions that someone has:

During a successful business career, she accumulated a great amount of wealth.

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Appalling poverty and great wealth coexist in the city.
Their policies are all towards the creation of wealth.
Some of his colleagues envy the enormous wealth that he has amassed.
For a man of his wealth he's not exactly generous.
As people accumulate more wealth, they tend to spend a greater proportion of their incomes.

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Large amounts of money

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Rich and wealthy

wealth noun (LARGE AMOUNT)

C2 [ S ]

a large amount of something good:

Jim has a wealth of teaching experience.

Russia has a wealth of coal and timber.

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Plenty and abundant

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(Definition of wealth from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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wealth

noun [ U ]

/welθ/

wealth noun [U] (MONEY)

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a large amount of money and other valuable possessions:

His wealth is so great that money doesn’t mean much to him.

wealth noun [U] (LARGE AMOUNT)

a large amount:

Jim has a wealth of teaching experience.

wealthy

adjective us

/ˈwel·θi/

Natural resources and a well-trained workforce make a country wealthy.

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wealth | Business English

wealth

noun

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[ U ]

a large amount of money, property, or valuable possessions that a person or a country owns:

create/build/generate wealth Leaders in business must create wealth and jobs.

accrue/accumulate wealth Households accumulate wealth by spending less than they earn.

household/personal/private wealth His personal wealth is estimated at $7 billion.

corporate/economic/financial wealth

consumer/shareholder wealth

oil/mineral/gas wealth Despite the country's oil wealth, most of its citizens live in poverty.

wealth creation/redistribution

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a large amount of something good:

a wealth of data/detail/information The website gives a wealth of data on a company's stock.

He brings a wealth of industry experience to his new position.

Examples of wealth

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Although those properties are owner-occupied, if that trend continued it would cause an erosion of one of the basic wealths of the nation.

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Aging and the income value of housing wealth.

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The main analysis of housing wealth and its relationship to income and financial wealth follows prior to a concluding section.

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The 1930s, moreover, saw a rapid increase in cash wealth in the district.

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Even so, the great strength of this work is the wealth of detailed and clearly presented information that it brings together.

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Faced with a wealth of information, how does he begin to trace the path of an historical interpretation of modern times?

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Compared with the wealth of investigations on monolingual language acquisition, research on early bilingualism still has some catching up to do.

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The author is very knowledgeable and provides a wealth of data about present language practices.

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Divisions of property, to a great extent, depended on the family's size and economic wealth.

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A closer scrutiny of the wealth of some will-makers will allow us to say more.

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Finally, let us analyse the relationship between wealth status and remarriage.

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The wealth of elite women was what put them at risk of confinement.

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To better facilitate turning intellectual wealth into profitable ideas, the majority of universities have formed alliances with private companies.

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Written sources can provide a wealth of new and revealing information on the materialities of objects as the authors of this article have clearly shown.

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Relatively little wealth was invested in goods that might be used primarily to impress other members of the elite.

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Collocations with wealth

wealth

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accumulated wealth

Evolution of agents is performed in a very simple fashion based on accumulated wealth.

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acquisition of wealth

Affirmative action focused on race facilitates the acquisition of wealth by an already privileged enclave because it does not seek to eliminate or even reduce class distinctions.

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comparative wealth

The scope of this volume inevitably reflects attendance at the 1988 conference, which in turn reflects the proximity and comparative wealth of the organisations sponsoring the authors.

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Translations of wealth

in Chinese (Traditional)

錢財, 財富，錢財, 大量…

Meaning of wealth in English

wealth noun (MONEY)

wealth noun (LARGE AMOUNT)

wealth | American Dictionary

wealth noun [U] (MONEY)

wealth noun [U] (LARGE AMOUNT)

wealthy

wealth | Business English

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