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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
thrive
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a plant thrives/flourishes (=grows well)
▪ A lot of plants thrive in partial shade.
a successful/profitable/thriving business
▪ Within a few years she had established a thriving business in London.
a thriving community (=a community which is successful)
▪ In the past the village was a thriving community with a number of shops.
a thriving industry (=one that is doing very well)
▪ Software development soon became a thriving industry in the area.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
on
▪ You want them to enjoy the books that imagination and curiosity thrive on.
▪ If there was anything Percy thrived on, he mused, it was details.
▪ But competition is what Northern has thrived on, and at 284p the shares look excellent value to me.
▪ The economic slump has dried up the big-ticket multi-billion yen projects that the majors used to thrive on.
▪ That's what lawyers thrive on.
▪ Crop yields will improve dramatically as vegetation thrives on an atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide.
▪ It is not difficult to fill the stands and this creates an electrifying atmosphere, which is something I thrive on.
▪ When Alvin arrived, he was pressed into rapid service of the sort he was learning of necessity to thrive on.
only
▪ Sport only thrives if both parties play by the rules, and accept the results with good grace.
▪ It is impressive how the old establishments not only thrive, but bustle with diners.
▪ Indeed, marram grass only thrives while fresh sand is being added to the dune.
▪ These two electronic experiments will thrive only if readers use them or tell us how they can be improved.
▪ It is important also to sort out those trees and shrubs that, like rhododendrons, will only thrive on acid soils.
still
▪ They grew tall with curving trunks, like the tree ferns that still thrive in tropical rain forests.
▪ The big name in Mission still thrives.
▪ Shopping Secrets Wherever you stay you will find the Venetian glass and lace industries still thrive.
▪ Restaurants are still thriving, attendance has not dropped off.
▪ A conventional outlook dominates his approach, but he still thrives on variety.
▪ Despite the growing protests of the medical establishment, boxing still thrives at the championship level.
■ NOUN
business
▪ While the espionage business continues to thrive, its remit has changed.
▪ Indeed, cleaning businesses thrive in San Diego and elsewhere.
▪ The character, the flamboyance is being f-ed and sucked out of a business that traditionally thrives on the outrageous.
▪ The business thrived, and soon Richard was a civic pillar of Connecticut and a representative in the colonial legislature.
▪ At midnight, when business is thriving, there are traffic jams.
child
▪ Many children who fail to thrive will have suffered neglect and deprivation both of food and emotional warmth.
▪ Individuals must demand livable working conditions and viable communities if their children are to thrive.
▪ Such a child will rapidly thrive once an appropriate nutritional diet is provided.
▪ The initial and understandable - impression of teachers was that children were thriving on country life.
▪ Luckily, this leprous condition did not last long, and the doctor's visits grew less frequent as the child thrived.
▪ The health visitor says all three children have previously thrived.
company
▪ Why do some companies thrive on change while others struggle to survive?
▪ He loves company, and thrives on other people's attention.
failure
▪ In developing countries it is uncertain whether cryptosporidiosis leads to failure to thrive or whether malnutrition predisposes to cryptosporidiosis.
▪ We have previously reported two cases associated with chronic diarrhoea, failure to thrive and a proximal small intestinal enteropathy.
▪ Nine patients with Cryptosporidium, chronic diarrhoea and severe failure to thrive had a proximal small intestinal biopsy performed.
▪ Another medical check could find no organic reason for his failure to thrive and so psychological help was requested.
▪ The adults in the intestine may cause pot-belly, with failure to thrive, and occasional diarrhoea.
▪ A dichotomy between organic and non-organic failure to thrive has developed, but this is often an oversimplification of the clinical picture.
industry
▪ The World Health Organisation says the sale of organs by healthy donors has become a thriving industry.
▪ Still, catalog companies have faced many similar difficulties and still built a thriving, multibillion-dollar industry.
▪ Within twenty years there was a thriving industry in photographic prints, which included impressive landscapes, views and still lives.
▪ Politics, like government itself, has expanded from a dedicated personal calling to a large, thriving, expensive service industry.
plant
▪ If the trend continues, only plants which thrive in such pollution can be expected to survive.
▪ The plants thrive in meadows or along the edges of forests.
▪ Despite saturating the area with herbicide, he found rogue oilseed rape plants thriving in ditches and around telephone poles.
▪ Geranium, spider and ice plants thrive in old paint cans across from the outhouse.
▪ Research is a fragile plant which can not thrive without the right soil, nutrients and climate.
▪ Like rhubarb, asparagus and many other food plants, they thrive in enriched soil in a sunny spot.
▪ Unless sheep can repeatedly remove over 40% of the current season's growth of heather, the plants will continue to thrive.
▪ The information is helpful in selecting plants that will thrive in your area.
soil
▪ Research is a fragile plant which can not thrive without the right soil, nutrients and climate.
▪ Like rhubarb, asparagus and many other food plants, they thrive in enriched soil in a sunny spot.
▪ Many of the exquisite, tiny species narcissi will thrive in the well-drained soil.
▪ It is important also to sort out those trees and shrubs that, like rhododendrons, will only thrive on acid soils.
■ VERB
allow
▪ The two-humped beasts could provide valuable salt-tolerance genes for domestic livestock, allowing them to thrive in previously hostile areas.
continue
▪ Whether such pragmatism will continue to thrive among home users is hard to judge.
▪ Increasingly, retailers and manufacturers are questioning whether Gore can continue to thrive at such rarefied levels.
▪ While the espionage business continues to thrive, its remit has changed.
▪ The teams cut carefully to ensure the rushes continue to thrive.
▪ Unless sheep can repeatedly remove over 40% of the current season's growth of heather, the plants will continue to thrive.
▪ It is hoped links already established between the unit and other agencies will continue to thrive.
▪ And with help from the conservationists this spectacular reserve will continue to thrive.
▪ Ulster Television continues to thrive on an excellent programme performance and an immensely strong local identity.
fail
▪ Most nurseries write off one in 10 plants, for failing to germinate, thrive or being destroyed by pests.
▪ Many children who fail to thrive will have suffered neglect and deprivation both of food and emotional warmth.
▪ Seven children who were above the third percentile had recently lost weight or were failing to thrive.
seem
▪ They seemed to thrive on this and some of the females soon looked pregnant.
▪ Run by a local partner from 1983 to about 1995, the store seemed to thrive.
▪ They certainly seemed to thrive on them.
▪ The one that lives along the path to the mailbox seems to thrive on cached apples.
▪ But one couple seem to thrive on it.
▪ Will seems to thrive in the hard-driving, mind-altering milieu of rock and soul.
▪ They seem to thrive on and exploit timing delays and parasitic currents.
▪ He seemed to thrive under prison conditions, which caused the emperors to suspect their guards of going easy on the prisoner.
survive
▪ They are what have allowed capitalism to survive and thrive.
▪ He researched what his 211 ants needed to survive, to thrive.
▪ October brought a benevolent turn in the weather, and the grapes that survived September thrived.
▪ But with James' top lieutenant, Jim Lambright, taking over immediately, the Huskies survived, then thrived.
▪ Which may be why the Algonquin not only survives but thrives.
▪ The Republic and the agency will survive, and perhaps thrive.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It is still unclear whether dotcom companies will continue to thrive in the long-term future.
▪ Most herbs need direct sun all day in order to thrive.
▪ The IT explosion means that telecommunications companies are thriving.
▪ Wineries have thrived in the town for more than a century.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Ellington thrived in the limelight and success that his backstage partner contributed to so significantly during their almost three-decade collaboration.
▪ Eurosceptic business and political groups said the figures proved that Britain could thrive without losing its currency.
▪ If there was anything Percy thrived on, he mused, it was details.
▪ In quite a few ranges reintroduced sheep have thrived.
▪ They appear to love them and thrive.
▪ They can thrive with less than four hours of sun and survive in most garden soils.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thrive

Thrive \Thrive\ (thr[imac]v), v. i. [imp. Throve (thr[=o]v) or Thrived (thr[imac]vd); p. p. Thrived or Thriven (thr[i^]v"'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Thriving.] [OE. [thorn]riven, Icel. [thorn]r[=i]fask; probably originally, to grasp for one's self, from [thorn]r[=i]fa to grasp; akin to Dan. trives to thrive, Sw. trifvas. Cf. Thrift.]

  1. To prosper by industry, economy, and good management of property; to increase in goods and estate; as, a farmer thrives by good husbandry.

    Diligence and humility is the way to thrive in the riches of the understanding, as well as in gold.
    --I. Watts.

  2. To prosper in any business; to have increase or success. ``They by vices thrive.''
    --Sandys.

    O son, why sit we here, each other viewing Idly, while Satan, our great author, thrives?
    --Milton.

    And so she throve and prospered.
    --Tennyson.

  3. To increase in bulk or stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, as a plant; to flourish; as, young cattle thrive in rich pastures; trees thrive in a good soil.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
thrive

c.1200, from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse þrifask "to thrive," originally "grasp to oneself," probably reflexive of þrifa "to clutch, grasp, grip, take hold of" (compare Norwegian triva "to seize," Swedish trifvas, Danish trives "to thrive, flourish"), of unknown origin. Related: Thrived (or throve); thriving.

Wiktionary
thrive

vb. 1 To grow or increase stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, to flourish. 2 To increase in wealth or success; to prosper, be profitable.

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WordNet
thrive

  1. v. grow stronger; "The economy was booming" [syn: boom, prosper, get ahead, flourish, expand]

  2. gain in wealth [syn: prosper, fly high, flourish]

  3. [also: throve, thriven]

Wikipedia
Thrive (Newsboys album)

Thrive is the ninth studio album by Christian pop rock band Newsboys, released in 2002. It features the singles "It Is You," "Million Pieces (Kissin' Your Cares Goodbye)," and "Lord (I Don't Know)." Thrive debuted at No. 38 on the Billboard 200 charts, selling 37,000 units. In 2005, the album was re-released as Thrive – Special Edition which bundled the album with the previously released concert DVD From The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. When it was pre-ordered it came with the exclusive It Is You EP.

Thrive (website)

Thrive or Justthrive.com, was a free, web-based personal financial management application offering personalized financial advice and specifically targeting people in their 20s and 30s. The service offered online money management and planning, as well as using algorithmic advice to offer personalized guidance, based on transactions pulled from a user's loan, bank, and credit card accounts. It was permanently shut down on June 3, 2011.

Thrive (charity)

Thrive (formerly called Horticultural Therapy) is a small national charity, founded in 1978 by Chris Underhill, that uses gardening to change the lives of disabled people.

Thrive (Casting Crowns album)

Thrive (stylized as THRIVE) is the sixth studio album by American contemporary Christian music band Casting Crowns. Released on January 28, 2014 through Beach Street and Reunion Records, the album was produced by Mark A. Miller. Musically, the album, whose concept was inspired by Psalms 1 from the Bible, has a rock and contemporary Christian sound with influences from folk and bluegrass. The album received mostly positive reviews from music critics for its lyrics and musical diversity, but some critics felt that some songs were too similar to the work of other artists or to their own previous work.

Thrive sold 43,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release; although this was short of projections to sell 75,000 copies, it peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the Billboard Christian Albums chart, while also charting in Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, and the UK. The album was preceded by the lead single "All You've Ever Wanted", which peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Christian Songs chart. It has been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

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Usage examples of "thrive".

New Riviera was entirely too accommodating to imported species to allow anything out into the wild without official approval, where it would like as not reproduce and thrive like mad.

There is not a great deal of hope for assimilationist policies to be found in the professional Mexican-American leadership that thrives in government, journalism and the universities.

The girls stood among the banksia trees admiring the magnificent flowers of the many species that thrive in the sandy plains.

The art of the perfumer which, like all crude art, thrives upon blatancy, does not make us go to gardens, or love the rose, but often instils in us a kind of artificiality, so that perfumes, so far from being an inspiration to us, increasing our lives, become often the badge of the abnormal, used by those unsatisfied with simple, clean, natural things.

All day we trudged along roads which were quagmires, over our ankles in mud, until in the evening we made our way to Bridgewater, where we gained some recruits, and also some hundred pounds for our military chest, for it was a well-to-do place, with a thriving coast trade carried on down the River Parret.

Only the arms dealers and drug-runners are thriving She pulled the sleeve of her burka back to look at her watch.

Indeed, it thrived on the conditions, as if gunpowder and excreta were its nectar.

The discovery of magnetite in human brain cells back in the late twentieth century had bolstered their claims with the kind of pseudo-science backing such people thrived on.

Neill, Summerhill Pot Pot, grass, or marihuana is available anywhere in the country, as the black market is widespread and thriving very well.

One reason that marram grass thrives in the dunes is that it rolls its leaves together, which helps prevent water loss.

These cases are very different from that of the so-called Shroud of Turin, which shows something too close to a human form to be a misapprehended natural pattern and which is now suggested by carbon-14 dating to be not the death shroud of Jesus, but a pious hoax from the fourteenth century - a time when the manufacture of fraudulent religious relics was a thriving and profitable home handicraft industry.

A thriving village or township would begin to encroach on the common land of its weaker neighbours, would try to seize some of its rights of pannage in the forest, or fishing in the stream.

Take, shake, forsake, wake, awake, stand, break, speak, bear, shear, swear, tear, wear, weave, cleave, strive, thrive, drive, shine, rise, arise, smite, write, bide, abide, ride, choose, chuse, tread, get, beget, forget, seethe, make in both preterit and participle took, shook, forsook, woke, awoke, stood, broke, spoke, bore, shore, swore, tore, wore, wove, clove, strove, throve, drove, shone, rose, arose, smote, wrote, bode, abode, rode, chose, trode, got, begot, forgot, sod.

In the participle passive many of them are formed by en, as taken, shaken, forsaken, broken, spoken, born, shorn, sworn, torn, worn, woven, cloven, thriven, driven, risen, smitten, ridden, chosen, trodden, gotten, begotten, forgotten, sodden.

And they must have disturbed even less the peasants and pastoralists who dwelt and throve on the banks of the Niger and out across the plains beyond.