wealthnoun
uk/welθ/us/welθ/wealth noun (MONEY)
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
- a king's ransom idiom
- a small fortune idiom
- arm
- big bucks
- bomb
- bundle
- cost, charge, etc. the earth idiom
- earth
- fortune
- handsome
- king
- megabucks
- not to be sneezed at idiom
- pile
- pot
- small
- sneeze
- tidy
- treasure
- treasure trove
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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
- abound
- abound in/with sth
- abundance
- abundant
- ample
- aplenty
- bounty
- fruitfulness
- galore
- generosity
- generous
- handsome
- lavish
- liberal
- manifold
- profuse
- prolific
- rich
- richness
- superabundant
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