adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a poor/wealthy district (=where a lot of people are poor/rich)
▪ He lived in one of London’s poorest districts.
a privileged/wealthy background
▪ All the top jobs were taken by people from privileged backgrounds.
a rich/wealthy nation
▪ Most tourists come from the wealthy nations of the world.
a wealthy businessman
▪ The ship was owned by a wealthy businessman.
a wealthy individual (=a wealthy person)
▪ Large ranches are often owned by corporations or wealthy individuals.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
extremely
▪ He had left as a poor, working class boy and returned as an extremely wealthy man.
▪ Mention the average client rather than an extremely wealthy one-unless you helped him or her get that way.
▪ They went to Cartier's in the Landmark, the black and gold shopping mall for the extremely wealthy.
▪ There are a lot of extremely wealthy people here.
▪ It is well to remember that Susanna Jennens with her £300 per year was not extremely wealthy.
▪ As a civilization, it was solidly based in extremely wealthy areas, alongside which Arabia then seemed very poor.
fabulously
▪ Everybody I met would surely be either fabulously wealthy, extremely intelligent or both.
▪ In short they are all now fabulously wealthy.
immensely
▪ After all, he was an eminently eligible man, attractive and immensely wealthy.
▪ The order grew immensely wealthy and place names all over the country still remind us of lands that they once owned.
▪ After all, he was an immensely wealthy man.
▪ Like Hope, he was immensely wealthy, and was able to combine passive politics with active art patronage and writing.
less
▪ Today, the Department approved grant-maintained status for five schools in wealthy, middle-class and less wealthy areas in that borough.
▪ But that would not make them less wealthy.
▪ The city remained free until the early sixteenth century but was less wealthy.
▪ The timing also is bad for many people who were already feeling less wealthy because of the downturn in the stock market.
most
▪ Altdorf Altdorf is the capital of the Empire and the most wealthy of the City States.
▪ Even the most wealthy moguls and healthy corporations will take out loans or mortgages to finance homes and equipment.
▪ Two-thirds was owned by the most wealthy 10%.
▪ Thirdly, the competitive nature of capitalism means that only the largest and most wealthy companies will survive and prosper.
▪ Between 1979 and 1985 the proportion of wealth, held by the most wealthy 1 percent fell by only 2 percent.
relatively
▪ In general, such luxury items occur only rarely in Lincoln and the owners may well have been relatively wealthy burghers.
▪ He was over sixty and a relatively wealthy man, with a wife who was financially independent.
very
▪ Some Goblins become very wealthy by trading in this way and the tribe's King becomes exceedingly rich.
▪ Mr Crump is very wealthy and his wife is susceptible.
▪ I have a friend who is very wealthy.
▪ Just occasionally, wooden chests were used as coffins, but only for very wealthy people.
▪ For smokers and the very wealthy, the taxes would be higher.
▪ He seized the assets of all those he held, doubtless exceeding his authority in cases of the very wealthy.
▪ By the time he died, though, he had filed over a thousand patents and was a very wealthy man.
■ NOUN
businessman
▪ For Nina Liebermann, solution was a chance acquaintance with a wealthy businessman.
▪ But the wealthy businessmen who hitherto have been his best customers are counting their change these days.
▪ He picked up a £142,000 payoff from wealthy businessman Braswell when Clinton granted him a pardon on his last day in office.
▪ Terry Lierman, a wealthy businessman and lobbyist, had been considered the leading candidate among Democrats to challenge Morella next year.
▪ It was the natural choice for the landed gentry and a symbol of aspiration for wealthy businessmen.
▪ Arizonans have a habit of embracing wealthy businessmen with virtually no elective experience.
client
▪ This was considered fairer because the amount of advertising time would be small and expensive, which could favour the wealthiest clients.
▪ The firm oversees $ 30 million for wealthy clients.
▪ George attempted a nearly honest living as a part-time thespian, and also as a tutor to the children of wealthy clients.
▪ This did not in fact happen, but the earlier suggestion of it kept some of the wealthier clients on tap.
country
▪ The trend towards slower population growth appeared more and more in wealthier countries and regions.
▪ It is funded by taxpayers of the wealthier countries.
▪ In many wealthy countries, waste is the environmental problem that people care about most.
▪ From wealthy countries, as well as from international investors who are willing to lend the World Bank funds.
▪ Filthy-rich individuals apart, the politics of greed makes no economic sense for the wealthy countries that pursue it.
▪ By these measures, the economic gap between the wealthier countries and the poorer countries is usually diminished.
▪ Do you think this conclusion also applies to wealthier countries?
family
▪ He probably, she thought, came from a wealthy family.
▪ Worn, secondhand clothes in a wealthy family were symbolic of a powerful devaluation.
▪ Frequently the tombs, chapels, hatchments, private pews, and so on, indicate a local wealthy family.
▪ Jane was wealthy; she was working for a wealthy family.
▪ Her parents were both cut off by their wealthy families, following a clandestine marriage in the early 1750s.
▪ She was from a wealthy family and did not need to work.
▪ At Mochlos, there were some rectangular tombs which belonged to wealthy families.
▪ But Catholic, Protestant and other religious leaders expressed fear that tax reforms will favor wealthier families and big business.
farmer
▪ His grandfather, my great-grandfather, had been a wealthy farmer.
▪ I was the daughter of a wealthy farmer and the granddaughter of the wealthiest woman in the county.
▪ The fact that the Ryans were wealthy farmers made no difference.
▪ After all, I began life as the only child of a wealthy farmer.
▪ Ricardo despaired that Parliament was protecting wealthy farmers at the expense of the working poor.
individual
▪ Competition for the custom of wealthy individuals is also growing.
▪ That effectively excludes all but the wealthiest individuals.&038;.
▪ Even quite wealthy individuals confess to conjuring up images of going cold and hungry.
▪ Naturally, the public display of great works of art led to a demand for imitations for enjoyment by wealthy individuals.
▪ Democrats and Republicans raised millions from wealthy individuals, corporations and unions.
▪ It has helped to create a new generation of seriously wealthy individuals and the establishment of a tax system geared to entrepreneurs.
▪ Large ranches are often owned by corporations or wealthy individuals who have the cash to survive a downturn.
investor
▪ Meanwhile insurance experts say the Lloyds losses will affect everyone, not just wealthy investors.
▪ Soros made his fortune by setting up pools of wealthy investors who bet huge sums on global markets.
▪ Both companies are private client stockbrokers, which specialize in managing money for wealthy investors, trusts and charities.
▪ The Clinton Treasury wants to collect more capital gains tax from wealthy investors by closing supposed loopholes.
landowner
▪ Grandfather: Nicholai Alexandrovich Romanov, merchant, and one of the wealthiest landowners in Petrograd.
▪ His father was a wealthy landowner with holdings up and down the lower Delaware.
▪ The concern of the wealthy landowner was to continue as long as possible the wealth and social status of the family.
▪ The Tzeltal and Tojolabal in Chiapas were driven into the rocky highlands after their lush flatlands were taken over by wealthy landowners.
▪ Currently, subsidies that were envisaged as a way of protecting farmers in poor areas are being commercially exploited by wealthy landowners.
▪ A narrow élite among the wealthier landowners and bureaucrats was developing tastes and interests which broke the Orthodox mould.
man
▪ He subsequently became a national figure and a wealthy man before dying in poverty.
▪ Unless it would be for wealthy men interested in acquiring as trophy wives lapsed radicals who look great in workout gear.
▪ Smith died a wealthy man 7 June 1591.
▪ Most of them are wealthy men whose wives raise their children.
▪ A considerable amount of objectivity was necessary if a really wealthy man decided to sweep a Girl off her feet.
▪ But the speaker is not a wealthy man and could dip into campaign coffers, causing more controversy.
▪ A wealthy man, without flying experience, was flown from London to Paris by his pilot.
member
▪ Mr Sayer also hinted at moves to encourage other wealthier members of the association to increase their current contributions.
merchant
▪ The Church of St Havel with its Romanesque foundations was surrounded by the houses of wealthy merchants.
▪ At twenty-eight he was a wealthy merchant and a member of Congress.
▪ Morrice became a moderately wealthy merchant, spending generously on the education of young men for the dissenting ministry.
▪ Under other circumstances, he might have become a wealthy merchant.
▪ By 1816 she had married a wealthy merchant named Hedgeland, who was dead by 1820.
▪ Takes its name from Thomas Gledstane, a wealthy merchant.
nation
▪ He urged wealthy nations to plant tropical hardwoods in desert lands, thereby tripling the area under tropical timber within a century.
▪ But since the War exhibitions have been held at Brussels, Montreal and Osaka by wealthy nations, celebrating their achievements.
▪ Probably by encouraging the world's wealthy nations to build nuclear power stations so that other countries need not follow suit.
parent
▪ It had been financed by blood money, blood money from the wealthy parents of Charles's dead wife.
people
▪ Just occasionally, wooden chests were used as coffins, but only for very wealthy people.
▪ Yet they could not resolve the paradox that their revolutionary aims resulted in goods that only wealthy people could afford.
▪ Surveys within different countries seem to confirm this; the wealthier people in those countries are actually happier than the poorer.
▪ Gains or losses from such investments tend to affect how wealthy people feel and their willingness to spend.
▪ He enjoyed the company of influential and wealthy people, including royalty.
▪ There are a lot of extremely wealthy people here.
▪ Many wealthy people will be prevented by their love of money from entering into the Kingdom.
▪ These wealthy people also bought up precious shoreline land and donated it to the public.
person
▪ But even the wealthiest person in the land is poor without spiritual riches.
suburb
▪ Newcastle City now includes the very wealthy suburb of Gosforth.
▪ The Berzinses' spacious house is in a wealthy suburb of Indianapolis.
woman
▪ Charlotte: Charlotte is a wealthy woman in her early forties who views aromatherapy as nothing more than an upmarket beauty treatment.
▪ Women were crazy about him the most beautiful, the wealthiest women who belonged to the great families.
▪ A wealthy woman in her own right, her personal fortune was recently estimated at £37m.
▪ I was the daughter of a wealthy farmer and the granddaughter of the wealthiest woman in the county.
▪ There were wealthy women whose husbands occupied important official positions.
▪ His savvy with wealthy women accounted for many of his accomplishment5 A charity bearing his name was established in Paris in 1833.
▪ We get wealthy women in here, well-known, good people.
▪ Upon her demise, this wealthy woman bequeathed her entire fortune to a prisoner by the name of Mons.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Joan comes from a wealthy family
▪ She comes from a wealthy family, who own houses in London and Paris.
▪ The new taxes were aimed at the largest and wealthiest corporations.
▪ You would never have guessed from meeting him how immensely wealthy he was.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A young woman does not mate faithfully with a wealthy tycoon.
▪ Born to a wealthy cloth merchant, Francis lived a lavish and irresponsible life.
▪ He is also wealthy enough to buy survival.
▪ He probably, she thought, came from a wealthy family.
▪ It is funded by taxpayers of the wealthier countries.
▪ The Coach House originally provided stabling for a wealthy rector who lived next door.
▪ These are nothing but elitist attempts at separating classes and colors and keeping the poor where the wealthy have put them.