noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a wealth of experience (= a lot of useful experience )
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Between them, the management team have a wealth of experience.
a wealth of talent (= a large amount of talent )
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There’s a wealth of musical talent in New York and other large American cities.
fabulous wealth
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the Duke’s fabulous wealth
material goods/possessions/wealth etc
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The spiritual life is more important than material possessions.
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a society that places high importance on material rewards
redistribute income/wealth/resources etc
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a programme to redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor
untold riches/wealth
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a game that offers untold wealth to the most talented players
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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The Duke did all he could to track down the miscreants, using his great wealth to bribe informers.
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I had no ambitions to achieve great wealth or power or fame.
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His great wealth has brought contacts and political influence.
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These tended to be people of great wealth .
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All this, together with a parsimonious outlook on life, brought him great wealth .
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They declared it is sure to guarantee economic expansion and greater wealth all around in the 21st century.
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He had become accustomed to great wealth , but he had a social conscience and may even have considered himself a socialist.
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Capitalist concentration proceeds; productive plant and resources come to he owned by ever fewer people of ever greater wealth .
material
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For centuries, material wealth and abundance has been seen as incompatible with spiritual growth.
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Studies and statistics underline the fact: 200 large-scale enterprises control about half the fabulous material wealth of the United States.
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At the same it reveals a society rich in material wealth .
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In particular, a tax on the transfer of material wealth may well make other forms of transfer more attractive.
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Food was in short supply, of course, and there were few signs of any material wealth at all.
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True, education is often also useful in its results - useful in the sense of promoting the creation of material wealth .
mineral
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Black symbolises the people, green the fertility of the land, and gold the mineral wealth from beneath the soil.
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But now signs are emerging that the groups have begun to collude with each other to pillage the park's mineral wealth .
national
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The system would probably need strict control of money supply too, keeping its growth in line with national wealth .
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The top 1 percent now own 42 percent of the national wealth .
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As our national wealth increased, we have been able to devote much greater resources to these services than ever before.
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Its increase measures the increase in national wealth .
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The idea would be to compile over a short period a national register of wealth holdings.
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Workers must have the ability to obtain their fair share of the national wealth .
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How do the various classes fare in terms of participation in national wealth ?
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They committed themselves to giving 0.7 % of their national wealth to poor countries.
personal
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Employees should also be careful not to stake too much of their personal wealth on the company they work for.
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This means that creditors, for example, may pursue the personal wealth of a partner in order to satisfy a partnership debt.
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Politics is a game to them in which they can oppress people, victimize them and amass great personal wealth .
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For these reasons, rates of reproduction are inversely proportional to personal wealth .
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It meant less work, thus freeing them for other activities, such as the pursuIt of personal wealth .
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This led to the development of personal privilege and wealth as these native collaborators colluded in the exploitation of their compatriots.
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Keane wanted to be in front, but he was distracted by a craving for personal wealth .
private
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He was younger than McCready by a decade, a high flyer with a good degree and private wealth .
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Between their hold on giant pension funds and their private wealth , they dominate political, economic, and social policy.
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He suspected there was more private wealth in that one vault than most countries on earth could call on.
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In 1992 the richest one percent owned more than 30 percent of the total private wealth .
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Is that not an example of private wealth at the expense of public underfunding?
real
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Temple defined the relationships which constituted our real wealth as existing in terms of family, community and nation.
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Since they are non-producers, the bourgeoisie are therefore exploiting the proletariat, the real producers of wealth .
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But this is real progress - and the clear result of creating real wealth .
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For example, owner-occupiers are considered to derive real wealth from houses as assets.
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Bengal was the real source of wealth , and Calcutta the centre of its export trade.
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The financial system is in effect a superstructure erected upon the real wealth of a nation - its physical assets.
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Taps, she reckoned, were the real symbol of wealth and success.
total
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In 1971, approximately one-third of the total marketable wealth in Britain was owned by 1% of the population.
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Table 8-5 tracks the share of total household wealth held by the richest 1 percent of households between 1922 and 1981.
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The main problem with this demand for money function is that of finding a method of measuring total wealth .
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In 1992 the richest one percent owned more than 30 percent of the total private wealth .
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First, the Keynesian function includes current national income, whereas Friedman is using permanent income as a proxy for total wealth .
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Moreover, the top 20 percent of the population owned 84. 6 percent of total wealth .
vast
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The Sultan deposited within this town a vast store of wealth .
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In later cultures we find the king or chief buried with vast wealth and often with slaves.
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Williamson used some of his vast wealth to provide permanent evidence of his beneficence.
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The church's vast wealth was accessible to the king on a scale denied even to the greatest of landed magnates.
■ NOUN
creation
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Another issue, providing a constant theme, was the role of the school in promoting wealth creation .
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At least in the short term, wealth creation results in increased selfishness.
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We have always argued that the main motivation for government funding of research should be wealth creation .
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It regards the private sector as the source of wealth creation , part of which is used to subsidize the public sector.
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There is approval ofthe free market for wealth creation and many of the economic policies this entails.
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On the issues of the future, especially on wealth creation and technological change, Labour had little to say.
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And social services suffered too, as they always will when wealth creation is despised.
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Indeed, education itself has an added value that is a form of wealth creation .
distribution
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Table 9-1 sketches a picture of income and wealth distribution .
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The impact on wealth distribution was already visible by the end of 1992, as Table 8-7 shows.
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Another method of collecting information on wealth distribution is to use survey research, but this too has its drawbacks.
tax
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As taxpayers subject to wealth tax , the Chiracs should have declared any amounts of cash they kept during those years.
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The Michigan economists take no stand on a wealth tax .
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The proposal is not to introduce a wealth tax under the form that it has been proposed elsewhere.
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Traditionally, a wealth tax has been considered as another means whereby the Treasury can raise funds.
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As we all have the choice of spending or saving, some simple form of wealth tax could be considered, too.
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These types of tax take the form of annual wealth taxes, gift taxes and inheritance taxes.
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Efficiency is discussed in relation to the wealth tax replacing some income tax or a projected increase in income taxes.
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Again, a low wealth tax rate is suggested as a supplement to income tax. 3.
■ VERB
accumulate
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How fortunate it is that enthusiasts such as Col. Savill have accumulated a wealth of material illustrating the railway scene.
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There was enough accumulated wealth for the third Joseph Wright Alsop to pursue a life as country gentleman.
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Grumbold's will indicates that he accumulated considerable wealth , acquiring a substantial amount of leasehold property in Cambridge.
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By this definition, large, nonprofit firms that exist primarily to accumulate wealth would not qualify.
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One key motivating factor is greed and a desire to accumulate more wealth .
acquire
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How had the new city fathers acquired the wealth and prestige to embark on these schemes?
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In our headlong pursuit to acquire wealth and worldly pleasures, Christians have become virtually indistinguishable from the rest of the world.
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Verse 13: although near enough to acquire wealth from maritime trade, Zebulun's territory did not stretch to the sea.
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Britain has always acquired its wealth , until the Industrial Revolution, through its agriculture.
bring
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The mysterious tonic and the fine-tooth metal comb brought Walker incredible wealth .
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He argues that whaling has brought great wealth to the nations of the world.
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Hall, having appeared on stage once before in Bus Stop, brings only a wealth of inexperience.
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People brought back such wealth and then converted it into the real coin of the realm, property.
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He had brought with him a wealth of experience and he shared many a story of his love of the outdoors.
contain
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It contains an enormous wealth of information and is an extremely comprehensive reference book.
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Some 200-plus pages of charts, tables and maps contain a wealth of information from vital data to the trivial and inconsequential.
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The exhibition, which contained an extraordinary wealth of art, opened on June 5, 1961.
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This book contains a wealth of information on all aspects of regulatory compliance monitoring using atomic spectroscopic analysis techniques.
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Her fabulous products for face and body contain a wealth of natural ingredients and have been formulated without animal testing.
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The Birmingham area contains a wealth of attractions for transport enthusiasts.
create
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The Conservative Government always said that we had to create wealth first, and then improve our public services.
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You have not engaged in our great and gathering conversation, nor did you create the wealth of our marketplaces.
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At stake is whether the scheme will create more wealth than it destroys.
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It is this shift in perspective that is creating a wealth of new possibilities.
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Finally, arrangements are to be created to redistribute wealth in the region.
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Still, a public offering would create instant wealth for the small group of full partners in Goldman Sachs.
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This positive mandate to create wealth however is in the context of our fiduciary responsibilities.
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They invest it in creating more wealth .
increase
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Adam Smith's view of the great significance of transport developments in increasing the wealth of the nation has been much quoted.
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Instead, the open land seemed to cry out for in-creased numbers to develop resources and increase the wealth of all.
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The driving force of a flourishing society is individual acquisitiveness which creates demands that boost trade and increase the general wealth .
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This is more likely if increasing wealth is matched by increasing population and increasing density of population.
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It conflicts with growth, because growth seeks to increase wealth , and sustainability seeks only to preserve it.
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Once princes and feudal lords who wished to increase the productive wealth of their domains imported craftsmen as a matter of course.
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However, it's recommended you stick to legal means of increasing your wealth .
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Again, we can expect long-term influences such as increasing income and wealth to cause a rightward shift of the demand curve.
inherit
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Hamilton was one of those unfortunate men who have inherited immense wealth but not a lot more.
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The ability to inherit wealth or status from a parent is not unique to man.
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He inherited wealth and could have lived a leisured life but preferred to pursue his earlier interest in natural philosophy.
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In rich families that have substantial inherited wealth , assets may be primarily in the form of claims on tangible assets.
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Her other relations were not interested in her happiness but only in inheriting her wealth , so they said nothing.
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This legitimized inherited wealth , for it blessed only the biologically superior.
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Like a lot of people who inherit or marry wealth , Straus viewed money abstractly.
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Otis despised inherited wealth and class, but he despised a town that was disdainful of growth even more.
produce
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Marx maintained that only labour produces wealth .
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An event such as a school centenary can often produce a wealth of material from the local community.
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Mr Thornton however produces a wealth of information from literary and archival sources which consolidate many of his assumptions from the pictures.
provide
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Whatever else, this should provide a wealth of entertainment.
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Adding great architectural style, the conservatory also provides a wealth of extra colour and light at the back of he house.
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This hopefully will provide a wealth of reminiscence and anecdote, and might take place anywhere from Putney to Paris.
redistribute
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Finally, arrangements are to be created to redistribute wealth in the region.
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There is a mechanism for redistributing wealth from the rich to the poor.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a patina of wealth/success etc
comparative comfort/freedom/wealth etc
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I enjoyed this comparative freedom and spent a lot of time pacing around the cell.
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The comparative freedom that the close presence of grandparents afforded wives contributed significantly to the high standard of farming seen.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Gradually we realised that despite the wealth , warmth and comfort, Templecombe held an eerie, sinister air.
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It must be cleaned up and sanitized lest our environment become intolerable and our wealth a curse instead of a blessing.
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Table 8-5 tracks the share of total household wealth held by the richest 1 percent of households between 1922 and 1981.
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The market economic game has to begin with an initial distribution of income and wealth .
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They invest it in creating more wealth .
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This chapter is concerned with the study of the unequal distribution of power, prestige and wealth in society.