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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wealth
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a wealth of experience (=a lot of useful experience)
▪ Between them, the management team have a wealth of experience.
a wealth of talent (=a large amount of talent)
▪ There’s a wealth of musical talent in New York and other large American cities.
fabulous wealth
▪ the Duke’s fabulous wealth
material goods/possessions/wealth etc
▪ The spiritual life is more important than material possessions.
▪ a society that places high importance on material rewards
redistribute income/wealth/resources etc
▪ a programme to redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor
untold riches/wealth
▪ a game that offers untold wealth to the most talented players
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
▪ The Duke did all he could to track down the miscreants, using his great wealth to bribe informers.
▪ I had no ambitions to achieve great wealth or power or fame.
▪ His great wealth has brought contacts and political influence.
▪ These tended to be people of great wealth.
▪ All this, together with a parsimonious outlook on life, brought him great wealth.
▪ They declared it is sure to guarantee economic expansion and greater wealth all around in the 21st century.
▪ He had become accustomed to great wealth, but he had a social conscience and may even have considered himself a socialist.
▪ Capitalist concentration proceeds; productive plant and resources come to he owned by ever fewer people of ever greater wealth.
material
▪ For centuries, material wealth and abundance has been seen as incompatible with spiritual growth.
▪ Studies and statistics underline the fact: 200 large-scale enterprises control about half the fabulous material wealth of the United States.
▪ At the same it reveals a society rich in material wealth.
▪ In particular, a tax on the transfer of material wealth may well make other forms of transfer more attractive.
▪ Food was in short supply, of course, and there were few signs of any material wealth at all.
▪ True, education is often also useful in its results - useful in the sense of promoting the creation of material wealth.
mineral
▪ Black symbolises the people, green the fertility of the land, and gold the mineral wealth from beneath the soil.
▪ But now signs are emerging that the groups have begun to collude with each other to pillage the park's mineral wealth.
national
▪ The system would probably need strict control of money supply too, keeping its growth in line with national wealth.
▪ The top 1 percent now own 42 percent of the national wealth.
▪ As our national wealth increased, we have been able to devote much greater resources to these services than ever before.
▪ Its increase measures the increase in national wealth.
▪ The idea would be to compile over a short period a national register of wealth holdings.
▪ Workers must have the ability to obtain their fair share of the national wealth.
▪ How do the various classes fare in terms of participation in national wealth?
▪ They committed themselves to giving 0.7 % of their national wealth to poor countries.
personal
▪ Employees should also be careful not to stake too much of their personal wealth on the company they work for.
▪ This means that creditors, for example, may pursue the personal wealth of a partner in order to satisfy a partnership debt.
▪ Politics is a game to them in which they can oppress people, victimize them and amass great personal wealth.
▪ For these reasons, rates of reproduction are inversely proportional to personal wealth.
▪ It meant less work, thus freeing them for other activities, such as the pursuIt of personal wealth.
▪ This led to the development of personal privilege and wealth as these native collaborators colluded in the exploitation of their compatriots.
▪ Keane wanted to be in front, but he was distracted by a craving for personal wealth.
private
▪ He was younger than McCready by a decade, a high flyer with a good degree and private wealth.
▪ Between their hold on giant pension funds and their private wealth, they dominate political, economic, and social policy.
▪ He suspected there was more private wealth in that one vault than most countries on earth could call on.
▪ In 1992 the richest one percent owned more than 30 percent of the total private wealth.
▪ Is that not an example of private wealth at the expense of public underfunding?
real
▪ Temple defined the relationships which constituted our real wealth as existing in terms of family, community and nation.
▪ Since they are non-producers, the bourgeoisie are therefore exploiting the proletariat, the real producers of wealth.
▪ But this is real progress - and the clear result of creating real wealth.
▪ For example, owner-occupiers are considered to derive real wealth from houses as assets.
▪ Bengal was the real source of wealth, and Calcutta the centre of its export trade.
▪ The financial system is in effect a superstructure erected upon the real wealth of a nation - its physical assets.
▪ Taps, she reckoned, were the real symbol of wealth and success.
total
▪ In 1971, approximately one-third of the total marketable wealth in Britain was owned by 1% of the population.
▪ Table 8-5 tracks the share of total household wealth held by the richest 1 percent of households between 1922 and 1981.
▪ The main problem with this demand for money function is that of finding a method of measuring total wealth.
▪ In 1992 the richest one percent owned more than 30 percent of the total private wealth.
▪ First, the Keynesian function includes current national income, whereas Friedman is using permanent income as a proxy for total wealth.
▪ Moreover, the top 20 percent of the population owned 84. 6 percent of total wealth.
vast
▪ The Sultan deposited within this town a vast store of wealth.
▪ In later cultures we find the king or chief buried with vast wealth and often with slaves.
▪ Williamson used some of his vast wealth to provide permanent evidence of his beneficence.
▪ The church's vast wealth was accessible to the king on a scale denied even to the greatest of landed magnates.
■ NOUN
creation
▪ Another issue, providing a constant theme, was the role of the school in promoting wealth creation.
▪ At least in the short term, wealth creation results in increased selfishness.
▪ We have always argued that the main motivation for government funding of research should be wealth creation.
▪ It regards the private sector as the source of wealth creation, part of which is used to subsidize the public sector.
▪ There is approval ofthe free market for wealth creation and many of the economic policies this entails.
▪ On the issues of the future, especially on wealth creation and technological change, Labour had little to say.
▪ And social services suffered too, as they always will when wealth creation is despised.
▪ Indeed, education itself has an added value that is a form of wealth creation.
distribution
▪ Table 9-1 sketches a picture of income and wealth distribution.
▪ The impact on wealth distribution was already visible by the end of 1992, as Table 8-7 shows.
▪ Another method of collecting information on wealth distribution is to use survey research, but this too has its drawbacks.
tax
▪ As taxpayers subject to wealth tax, the Chiracs should have declared any amounts of cash they kept during those years.
▪ The Michigan economists take no stand on a wealth tax.
▪ The proposal is not to introduce a wealth tax under the form that it has been proposed elsewhere.
▪ Traditionally, a wealth tax has been considered as another means whereby the Treasury can raise funds.
▪ As we all have the choice of spending or saving, some simple form of wealth tax could be considered, too.
▪ These types of tax take the form of annual wealth taxes, gift taxes and inheritance taxes.
▪ Efficiency is discussed in relation to the wealth tax replacing some income tax or a projected increase in income taxes.
▪ Again, a low wealth tax rate is suggested as a supplement to income tax. 3.
■ VERB
accumulate
▪ How fortunate it is that enthusiasts such as Col. Savill have accumulated a wealth of material illustrating the railway scene.
▪ There was enough accumulated wealth for the third Joseph Wright Alsop to pursue a life as country gentleman.
▪ Grumbold's will indicates that he accumulated considerable wealth, acquiring a substantial amount of leasehold property in Cambridge.
▪ By this definition, large, nonprofit firms that exist primarily to accumulate wealth would not qualify.
▪ One key motivating factor is greed and a desire to accumulate more wealth.
acquire
▪ How had the new city fathers acquired the wealth and prestige to embark on these schemes?
▪ In our headlong pursuit to acquire wealth and worldly pleasures, Christians have become virtually indistinguishable from the rest of the world.
▪ Verse 13: although near enough to acquire wealth from maritime trade, Zebulun's territory did not stretch to the sea.
▪ Britain has always acquired its wealth, until the Industrial Revolution, through its agriculture.
bring
▪ The mysterious tonic and the fine-tooth metal comb brought Walker incredible wealth.
▪ He argues that whaling has brought great wealth to the nations of the world.
▪ Hall, having appeared on stage once before in Bus Stop, brings only a wealth of inexperience.
▪ People brought back such wealth and then converted it into the real coin of the realm, property.
▪ He had brought with him a wealth of experience and he shared many a story of his love of the outdoors.
contain
▪ It contains an enormous wealth of information and is an extremely comprehensive reference book.
▪ Some 200-plus pages of charts, tables and maps contain a wealth of information from vital data to the trivial and inconsequential.
▪ The exhibition, which contained an extraordinary wealth of art, opened on June 5, 1961.
▪ This book contains a wealth of information on all aspects of regulatory compliance monitoring using atomic spectroscopic analysis techniques.
▪ Her fabulous products for face and body contain a wealth of natural ingredients and have been formulated without animal testing.
▪ The Birmingham area contains a wealth of attractions for transport enthusiasts.
create
▪ The Conservative Government always said that we had to create wealth first, and then improve our public services.
▪ You have not engaged in our great and gathering conversation, nor did you create the wealth of our marketplaces.
▪ At stake is whether the scheme will create more wealth than it destroys.
▪ It is this shift in perspective that is creating a wealth of new possibilities.
▪ Finally, arrangements are to be created to redistribute wealth in the region.
▪ Still, a public offering would create instant wealth for the small group of full partners in Goldman Sachs.
▪ This positive mandate to create wealth however is in the context of our fiduciary responsibilities.
▪ They invest it in creating more wealth.
increase
▪ Adam Smith's view of the great significance of transport developments in increasing the wealth of the nation has been much quoted.
▪ Instead, the open land seemed to cry out for in-creased numbers to develop resources and increase the wealth of all.
▪ The driving force of a flourishing society is individual acquisitiveness which creates demands that boost trade and increase the general wealth.
▪ This is more likely if increasing wealth is matched by increasing population and increasing density of population.
▪ It conflicts with growth, because growth seeks to increase wealth, and sustainability seeks only to preserve it.
▪ Once princes and feudal lords who wished to increase the productive wealth of their domains imported craftsmen as a matter of course.
▪ However, it's recommended you stick to legal means of increasing your wealth.
▪ Again, we can expect long-term influences such as increasing income and wealth to cause a rightward shift of the demand curve.
inherit
▪ Hamilton was one of those unfortunate men who have inherited immense wealth but not a lot more.
▪ The ability to inherit wealth or status from a parent is not unique to man.
▪ He inherited wealth and could have lived a leisured life but preferred to pursue his earlier interest in natural philosophy.
▪ In rich families that have substantial inherited wealth, assets may be primarily in the form of claims on tangible assets.
▪ Her other relations were not interested in her happiness but only in inheriting her wealth, so they said nothing.
▪ This legitimized inherited wealth, for it blessed only the biologically superior.
▪ Like a lot of people who inherit or marry wealth, Straus viewed money abstractly.
▪ Otis despised inherited wealth and class, but he despised a town that was disdainful of growth even more.
produce
▪ Marx maintained that only labour produces wealth.
▪ An event such as a school centenary can often produce a wealth of material from the local community.
▪ Mr Thornton however produces a wealth of information from literary and archival sources which consolidate many of his assumptions from the pictures.
provide
▪ Whatever else, this should provide a wealth of entertainment.
▪ Adding great architectural style, the conservatory also provides a wealth of extra colour and light at the back of he house.
▪ This hopefully will provide a wealth of reminiscence and anecdote, and might take place anywhere from Putney to Paris.
redistribute
▪ Finally, arrangements are to be created to redistribute wealth in the region.
▪ There is a mechanism for redistributing wealth from the rich to the poor.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a patina of wealth/success etc
comparative comfort/freedom/wealth etc
▪ I enjoyed this comparative freedom and spent a lot of time pacing around the cell.
▪ The comparative freedom that the close presence of grandparents afforded wives contributed significantly to the high standard of farming seen.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Gradually we realised that despite the wealth, warmth and comfort, Templecombe held an eerie, sinister air.
▪ It must be cleaned up and sanitized lest our environment become intolerable and our wealth a curse instead of a blessing.
▪ Table 8-5 tracks the share of total household wealth held by the richest 1 percent of households between 1922 and 1981.
▪ The market economic game has to begin with an initial distribution of income and wealth.
▪ They invest it in creating more wealth.
▪ This chapter is concerned with the study of the unequal distribution of power, prestige and wealth in society.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wealth

Wealth \Wealth\, n. [OE. welthe, from wele; cf. D. weelde luxury. See Weal prosperity.]

  1. Weal; welfare; prosperity; good. [Obs.] ``Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.''
    --1 Cor. x. 24.

  2. Large possessions; a comparative abundance of things which are objects of human desire; esp., abundance of worldly estate; affluence; opulence; riches.

    I have little wealth to lose.
    --Shak.

    Each day new wealth, without their care, provides.
    --Dryden.

    Wealth comprises all articles of value and nothing else.
    --F. A. Walker.

  3. (Econ.)

    1. In the private sense, all pooperty which has a money value.

    2. In the public sense, all objects, esp. material objects, which have economic utility.

    3. Specif. called personal wealth. Those energies, faculties, and habits directly contributing to make people industrially efficient.

      Active wealth. See under Active.

      Syn: Riches; affluence; opulence; abundance.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
wealth

mid-13c., "happiness," also "prosperity in abundance of possessions or riches," from Middle English wele "well-being" (see weal (n.1)) on analogy of health.

Wiktionary
wealth

n. 1 (context obsolete English) Weal; welfare; prosperity; good; well-being; happiness; joy. 2 Riches; valuable material possessions. 3 A great amount; an abundance or plenty.

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WordNet
wealth

  1. n. the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money; "great wealth is not a sign of great intelligence" [syn: wealthiness] [ant: poverty]

  2. the quality of profuse abundance; "she has a wealth of talent"

  3. an abundance of material possessions and resources [syn: riches]

  4. property that has economic utility: a monetary value or an exchange value

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Wikipedia
Wealth

Wealth is the abundance of valuable resources or valuable material possessions. This includes the core meaning as held in the originating old English word weal, which is from an Indo-European word stem. An individual, community, region or country that possesses an abundance of such possessions or resources to the benefit of the common good is known as wealthy.

The modern concept of wealth is of significance in all areas of economics, and clearly so for growth economics and development economics yet the meaning of wealth is context-dependent. At the most general level, economists may define wealth as "anything of value" that captures both the subjective nature of the idea and the idea that it is not a fixed or static concept. Various definitions and concepts of wealth have been asserted by various individuals and in different contexts. Defining wealth can be a normative process with various ethical implications, since often wealth maximization is seen as a goal or is thought to be a normative principle of its own.

United Nations definition of inclusive wealth is a monetary measure which includes the sum of natural, human and physical assets. Natural capital includes land, forests, fossil fuels, and minerals. Human capital is the population's education and skills. Physical (or "manufactured") capital includes such things as machinery, buildings, and infrastructure. Qatar is the wealthiest country in the world per capita.

Wealth (economics)
  1. Redirect Wealth#Economic analysis
Wealth (disambiguation)

Wealth is the abundance of valuable resources or material possessions.

Wealth may also refer to:

  • WealthTV, a cable television channel in the United States
  • Gospel of Wealth, an essay by Andrew Carnegie
  • Wealth, a 1921 American film directed by William Desmond Taylor
Wealth (film)

Wealth is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by William Desmond Taylor and written by Cosmo Hamilton and Julia Crawford Ivers. The film stars Ethel Clayton, Herbert Rawlinson, J.M. Dumont, Larry Steers, George Periolat, and Claire McDowell. The film was released on August 21, 1921, by Paramount Pictures. Its survival status is classified as unknown, which suggests that it is a lost film.

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Usage examples of "wealth".

Hengist, who boldly aspired to the conquest of Britain, exhorted his countrymen to embrace the glorious opportunity: he painted in lively colors the fertility of the soil, the wealth of the cities, the pusillanimous temper of the natives, and the convenient situation of a spacious solitary island, accessible on all sides to the Saxon fleets.

The booty that fell into the hands of the Goths was immense: the wealth of the adjacent countries had been deposited in Trebizond, as in a secure place of refuge.

The first column read: acerbus - house adhuc - wealth adsum - jewels autem - address bellum - inspect bonum - lock The column could be read no further.

The rival view was that true riches lay in trade, agriculture and industry, where wealth was truly earned and productively used.

He does four-fifths of the agricultural labor of the South and thereby adds four-fifths to the wealth of the South derived from agriculture, the leading Southern industry.

They whom I favour thrive in wealth amain, 430 While virtue, valour, wisdom, sit in want.

And there is no place better for making a name than the Inns of Court, and no profession more suited for amassing wealth than the law.

Of course everyone understood that the Ancestress had no intention of burying her wealth with Fainting Maid, but the display was customary, and it was also designed to make lesser mortals turn green with envy.

Yet I feel that for the Keinaba family, whose wealth and acumen is known and admired throughout the Empire, to instruct one of their own to learn Anglais, one as high-ranking, as valuable, and as perceptive as yourself, Hon Echido, means that there is a more delicate matter you wish to broach.

This development was secret however, and the wealth of its power was given over solely to TwoPi, the most numerous and advanced of the Hives, and to Arachno Buckminster Mouze, a physicist - if such a term could encompass as many spheres of hard science as could be imagined.

From the pure white kaffiyeh on his head bound by the heavy silver-and-black cords of an argal, to the expensive tailored suit on his large frame and his handmade shoes, he was the embodiment of Middle East wealth and power.

It would have meant borrowing every last bit of wealth owned by even the most impoverished Argali farmers, but besting the amount by one stalk of bi-wheat was all it took.

Prejudice, Argent had found in his dealing around the world, was established and enforced by wealth.

Men of wealth, all these, who cherished the memory of Henry Argyle and kept close watch upon the preserves over which they had been appointed guardians.

Grain-sellers and armourers and clothiers and horse-sellers and countless other suppliers smile with the pleasure of impending wealth.