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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
affluent
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
less
▪ Midhurst and Petworth were actually less affluent than their respective market areas.
▪ Other companies are turning to television, which offers access to a much broader but less affluent market.
▪ A wealthy partner risks money on the prudence of less affluent partners.
more
▪ As a similar percentage of the population, Norfolk priests were very much more affluent.
▪ One option might be variations on the kinds of private military schools that more affluent parents who can afford it already utilize.
▪ Some weeks, of course, were more affluent than others.
▪ They tend to be more mature, more responsible, and to come from more affluent homes.
▪ The students on his floor came from backgrounds more affluent and permissive than his own.
▪ The arts tourist is more highly educated, more affluent, and stays longer than the average tourist.
▪ If you happen to be among the more affluent yourself, ask yourself if you have any relatives in the military.
▪ While some of these funds were earmarked for South Phoenix, others were allocated to more affluent areas of the city.
most
▪ Spatial mobility tends to be highest amongst the most affluent groups on the one hand and the most poor on the other.
▪ During the Reagan administration, income was redistributed away from lower-income families and individuals-particularly the poorest-and towards the most affluent.
▪ Even the most affluent - who can afford private health care and private education - can not buy a clean environment.
▪ He was then the most affluent.
relatively
▪ However, comprehensives in relatively affluent rural and suburban areas will become richer.
■ NOUN
area
▪ They say that the pack reached only the more affluent areas where house prices averaged £150,000.
▪ While some of these funds were earmarked for South Phoenix, others were allocated to more affluent areas of the city.
▪ It is more difficult to understand the senseless vandalism that goes on in comparatively affluent areas.
country
▪ It is vital for the affluent countries to do much more through the United Nations to get support and assistance insitu.
▪ You depict rare occurrences - like Westerners paying for foster children to visit their affluent country - as a major problem.
family
▪ Black children from middle-class or affluent families, they say, are more apt to adopt what is commonly called black slang.
▪ In general, teenagers from more affluent families are more likely than those from poorer families to terminate their pregnancies.
▪ At the same time, we all know children from affluent families who are starved for moral and ethical guidance.
society
▪ But in an affluent society the problem of poverty is fundamentally different from what it is in an underdeveloped economy.
▪ Here, as also in pages to come, we see the most singular feature of the affluent society taking form.
▪ It provides perhaps little incentive for most youngsters in today's affluent society.
▪ It goes either to local elites or for export to more affluent societies.
▪ But that functioning is marginal to the lives of most people in affluent societies.
suburb
▪ Their housing situation is not atypical, even for this affluent suburb.
▪ Lisa Tessler is from an affluent suburb of New York.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an affluent neighborhood
▪ As people become more affluent, so their standard and style of living improves.
▪ Consumer goods are a symbol of prestige in an affluent society.
▪ We drove through affluent suburbs with large houses and tree-lined streets.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I had been guilty of this when my children were small in the early 1960s and living the affluent life.
▪ Leland added: Since none the less the gentry of the vicinity were anything but affluent, the profits may have been largely illusory.
▪ Of course it seems hard in our affluent times that the poor miner should have to suffer all of these deductions.
▪ Often we produce just the opposite, because the affluent become the most intense users of the service.
▪ Other companies are turning to television, which offers access to a much broader but less affluent market.
▪ Spatial mobility tends to be highest amongst the most affluent groups on the one hand and the most poor on the other.
▪ They say that the pack reached only the more affluent areas where house prices averaged £150,000.
▪ They tend to be more mature, more responsible, and to come from more affluent homes.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Affluent

Affluent \Af"flu*ent\, a. [Cf. F. affluent, L. affluens, -entis, p. pr. See Affluence.]

  1. Flowing to; flowing abundantly. ``Affluent blood.''
    --Harvey.

  2. Abundant; copious; plenteous; hence, wealthy; abounding in goods or riches.

    Language . . . affluent in expression.
    --H. Reed.

    Loaded and blest with all the affluent store, Which human vows at smoking shrines implore.
    --Prior.

Affluent

Affluent \Af"flu*ent\, n. A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
affluent

mid-15c., "flowing," from Middle French affluent (14c.) or directly from Latin affluentem (nominative affluens) "flowing toward, abounding, rich, copious," present participle of affluere "flow toward," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + fluere "to flow" (see fluent).

Wiktionary
affluent

a. 1 abundant; copious; plenteous. 2 (label en by extension) Abounding in goods or riches; materially wealthy. n. 1 (rft-sense) Somebody who is wealthy. 2 A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream; a tributary.

WordNet
affluent

  1. adj. having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value; "an affluent banker"; "a speculator flush with cash"; "not merely rich but loaded"; "moneyed aristocrats"; "wealthy corporations" [syn: flush, loaded, moneyed, wealthy]

  2. n. an affluent person; a person who is financially well off; "the so-called emerging affluents"

  3. a branch that flows into the main stream [syn: feeder, tributary] [ant: distributary]

Wikipedia
Affluent (horse)

Affluent (foaled 1998 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse.

Affluent (disambiguation)

To be affluent is to have an abundance of valuable resources or material possessions.

Affluent may also refer to:

  • Affluent (geography), a stream or river that flows into a main stem river or a lake
  • Affluent (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse

Usage examples of "affluent".

Coango, an affluent of the Congo, and after having traversed the continent from the extreme south to the east he reached St.

At no great distance flowed the Loohi, a river not yet explored, but which is supposed to be an affluent or sub-affluent of the Congo.

At the end of the chief thoroughfare flowed a deep and rapid brook, an affluent of the Coango, in the dry bed of which the royal grave was to be formed.

They proceeded as far as Cape Magala, and decided that the chief outlet of the lake must be an affluent of the Lualaba, a conclusion that was subsequently confirmed by Cameron.

In many malls, upscale stores are clustered together so the affluent shopper can drift from one to the other, looking not just for the good life but for the better life.

Right now, shopping centers offer utopias for the affluent, which is no utopia at all.

Supreme Affluent nodded, already shifting through the ranks of his enemies, trying to decide who might be behind this murderous attempt.

Supreme Affluent has gone to his final accounting, then you must come here to this very spot.

I hold you for questioning on the matter of an assassination attempt against my master, Supreme Affluent Reid Greene.

By preference, they seem to dwell about the sources of the Igatimi, an affluent of the Parana, and in the chain of mountains known either as San Jose or Mbaracayu.

It has a multitude of pubs, most of which he visited in his more affluent working days.

His meagre salary made heating the room a precarious business even in those relatively affluent days.

On the outside, John was the knight that she and her affluent, Catholic school girlfriends had been taught to want--the handsome, ambitious breadwinner, through whom they could vicariously be successes.

Their street, Clay Avenue, was more modest than most of the affluent byways of Pelham, but it was sheltered, shady, and quiet.

CHAPTER NINE In late 1971, even though they were much younger than most of their neighbors, John and Charlotte were well on their way to becoming established in the affluent community.