PROSPERITY


Meaning of PROSPERITY in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

peace and prosperity

We have had eight years of peace and prosperity.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

economic

According to the economic libertarian's theory, there should have been an increase in economic prosperity .

She also quickly realized that economic prosperity would more than make up for her political defeat.

He contends that economic prosperity has given the voters the opportunity to choose on issues like abortion and the environment.

The crime wave that spurred them has been falling steadily in times of greater economic prosperity .

Home rule and decentralisation will ensure that economic power and prosperity is spread throughout Britain.

The outcome could have widened the already-growing gap between rich and poor and profoundly affected our economic prosperity for decades.

For all its imperfections, land reform is essential to racial peace, economic prosperity , and, arguably, environmental justice.

Forbes, speaking by telephone, promoted his flat tax plan as a catalyst for economic prosperity .

future

The continuity of a successful outcome of the tendering process is the springboard of a company's future growth and prosperity .

I think it is integral for the future prosperity of downtown.

The company is then faced with the prospect of stepping from private ownership to public ownership to ensure future prosperity .

The future prosperity of the nation depended upon successful accommodation of the forces of post-industrial change.

Small businesses are the seedcorn of our future prosperity .

She could never have suspected that at that very moment, the camera maker's future prosperity hung in the balance.

general

This assistance inevitably spilled over as an increase in general prosperity for the ordinary Milanese city dweller.

Stark and Evans is meeting its obligations thanks to the general prosperity in the markets.

Yet general prosperity was rising too, and unemployment was falling anyway.

Agriculture was lagging behind the general prosperity levels.

The latter reveal a general growth in prosperity , with more solid goods to be left after death.

The result was low inflation, job creation that was the envy of the developed world, and general prosperity .

great

Tyneside in particular and the North East in general was a zone of great prosperity .

She held herself raised by her great prosperity above all that ordinary mortals fear and reverence.

Milan by contrast seems at first sight a city of the nineteenth century, the era of its greatest prosperity .

Some of the changes stemmed directly from the wartime period, others from the greater material prosperity of the 1920s.

If Gore loses, he will have lost as an incumbent at a time of peace and great prosperity .

It could lead to greater prosperity , lower inflation, more jobs and greater national influence.

Smith also knew that individual motivation, invention, and innovation inspire an economy to greater prosperity .

material

They are the generators of the material prosperity which is now taken for granted in the West.

This suggests that in some circumstances material prosperity may increase without cultural patterns changing markedly.

Such marginalization of older people was accompanied by increasing material prosperity and political activism.

Yet material prosperity is in no way guaranteed.

There is, in other words, plenty of evidence of poverty indicated by the traditional markers of lack of material prosperity .

Meanwhile Europhiles delude themselves that material prosperity attributable to membership can move emotions.

national

In Britain, despite growing national prosperity , one in four children is growing up in poverty.

The post-industrial transition, the Commission suggested, was breaking the economic bond between national and city prosperity .

Success in social policy depends on growth in national prosperity .

No one saw more clearly than President Herrera how necessary these were to national peace, prosperity , and progress.

We will introduce fair taxes Attacking poverty is an essential component of Labour's programme for national recovery and prosperity .

But even the idea of spatial trickle-own incorporates an expectation that not all areas gain from national prosperity .

new

You could be opening up the way to new prosperity .

Significantly, this new prosperity is not confined to the business elite or even the emerging middle class.

Now, with fewer than 2,000 workers in our pits, Cardiff docklands must find a new identity and a new prosperity .

Slowly but surely, the benefits of the new prosperity are spreading to embrace all parts of the province.

Much of Britain in the Midlands and the south relished the new prosperity the Thatcher years had brought.

But the opposition is not alone in seeing the appearance of new prosperity as in part a mirage.

To cope with the demands of the growing city population attracted by the new prosperity , sewers were built.

relative

The relative prosperity of the town does not justify Development Area status it's as simple as that.

There are several ways of considering the relative levels of prosperity in different regions.

In the first years after independence, relative prosperity masked the difficulty.

However, this relative prosperity tends to obscure the precarious living conditions of the 3.5m Kurds who live in the area.

■ VERB

bring

Investment in canals had brought prosperity for many shareholders and there was similar enthusiasm to invest in the railways.

Cybele, as Fortune, also brings peace and prosperity between wars.

In their time they were regarded as great magicians who brought prosperity to these parts.

Trade brings prosperity , said Evans.

Industrial expansion had brought no prosperity to the majority of the population.

Pax Britannica was supposed to bring peace and prosperity to the world.

Many Basques quietly agree that only a negotiated end to the conflict will bring back peace and prosperity to their region.

create

Recovery must be based on investment, for only investment will create lasting prosperity .

The generation that fought World War 11 also created the extraordinary prosperity that followed the conflict.

enjoy

As long as the country continues to enjoy prosperity sufficient to accommodate both agricultural and industrial sectors large-scale open conflict is unlikely.

Most of the rest of Sussex seems to have enjoyed the prosperity which peaked in the late thirteenth century.

ensure

The company is then faced with the prospect of stepping from private ownership to public ownership to ensure future prosperity .

Its society would simply absorb, reshape and adapt to ensure the fate and prosperity of the individual.

increase

Both of these will boost trade and increase our prosperity .

Such marginalization of older people was accompanied by increasing material prosperity and political activism.

The international economic environment Most economists are agreed that the period 1948 to 1973 was one of increasing world prosperity .

share

We want all our people to share in growing prosperity and to have a stake in the country's future.

However, the numbers who were unable to share in this prosperity due to unemployment soared from 1.09m to 2.65m people.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a time of economic prosperity

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

For its part, the government concluded that lowering the population growth rate would enhance the prosperity of the nation.

However, the numbers who were unable to share in this prosperity due to unemployment soared from 1.09m to 2.65m people.

However, the real foundations of prosperity lay elsewhere.

The 1980s housing boom coincided with a period of prosperity in the South Bay.

The chemical industry makes a crucial contribution to our health and prosperity and to protection of the environment.

The former has the longest and most consistent record of prosperity .

They had the opportunity to make up for this loss by sharing in 40 years of prosperity under a democratic system.

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