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