wealth
wealth (welt̸h)
noun
- much money or property; great amount of worldly possessions; riches
- the state of having much money or property; affluence a person of wealth
- a large amount (of something); abundance a wealth of ideas
- valuable products, contents, or derivatives the wealth of the oceans
- Obsolete weal; well-being
- Econ.
- everything having economic value measurable in price
- any useful material thing capable of being bought, sold, or stocked for future disposition
wealth
n.
Goods or services having economic utility
capital, capital stock, economic resources, stock, stocks and bonds, securities, vested interests, land, property, labor power, commodities, cash, money in the bank, money, natural resources, assets, purse strings*, dough*, long green*. * Antonyms
poverty*, idle resources, unemployment. * Personal riches
means, money, riches, substance, affluence, belongings, property, fortune, hoard, treasure, resources, revenue, cache, cash, competence, opulence, luxury, luxuriance, prosperity, pelf, abundance, money to burn*.
Converse of object
- accumulate: The Quaker families in those concerns, like their 18th century forebears, accumulated wealth on a stunning scale.
- redistribute: I hereby launch a campaign to redistribute the wealth of meaning.
- amass: My first thought deals with the legitimacy of amassing wealth.
- boast: This fine house remains a much-loved second residence for a local family and boasts a wealth of carefully chosen details throughout.
- inherit: Direct taxation must be systematically cut and some of the burden shifted to inherited wealth and gifts.
- contain: This African American website contains a wealth of information.
Preposition: through
- foreclosure: Step by step formula for building massive wealth through real estate foreclosures.
Adjective modifier
- immense: He chose to use the immense private wealth of the Temple rather than raise money for civil projects by taxation.
- enormous: He is a financier of enormous wealth, which he admittedly intends to use to achieve the destruction of American liberty.
- untold: Now the same territory is occupied by innumerable numbers of domestic animals that contribute untold wealth to our entire country.
- worldly: That one special end and use unto which rich men should employ their worldly wealth should be the help and relief of the poor.
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Modifies a noun
- creation: The second in Ivor's series of talks on the Integrated Company looks at wealth creation.
- creator: But while the tax exile may be welcome, the real wealth creators of Britain have suffered.
- accumulation: This is what happens when you gear an entire economy to wealth accumulation through rising stock and house prices.
Noun used with modifier
- mineral: Crops are grown on terraces, and together with mineral wealth, have made the region the veritable heart of the country.
Preposition: of
- talent: They spawned the creativity that fostered a wealth of talent in many areas, from science to satire.
- experience: Highly regarded within the industry, Darren brings a wealth of experience to the Laser Rail team.
- expertise: At CPA, we are able to draw on an unrivaled wealth of in-house expertise.
- knowledge: Here you will find a wealth of knowledge related to all aspects of.. .
Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable hour, The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
She's all states, and all princes I, Nothing else is. Princes do but play us; compared to this, All honour's mimic, all wealth alchemy.
Thus methinks should men of judgement frame Their means of traffic from the vulgar trade, And as their wealth increaseth, so enclose Infinite riches in a little room.
and Ireally hopeno white person ever has causetowrite about me because they never understand Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy
I was born into wealth and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there like food or air.
Il en est de la luxure comme de l'avarice: elle augmente sa soif par l'acquisition des tre¤ sors. The same rule applies for lust, as for avarice: it increases its thirst by the acquisition of wealth.
You cannot be pro-jobs and anti-government at the same time.You cannot love employees and despise employers.You cannot redistribute wealth that you never created. No goose, no golden egg.
Asthe Spanishproverbsays,'He, whowould bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
Yet I glory More in the cunning purchase of my wealth Than in the glad possession.
A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.
The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitraryand inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.
Entre nosotros el dinero ha hecho desaparecer ma¤ s preocupaciones de familia que en las viejas sociedades europeas. En e¤ stas hay lo que llaman aristocracia de dinero, que jama¤ s alcanza con su podera hacer olvidar enteramente la oscuridad de la cuna, al paso que en Chiletodo va cediendo su puesto a la riqueza. Among us, money has dissolved more worries than among ancient European societies. The latter have what they call the moneyed aristocracy, which, despite all its power, never gets to forget its humble origins; on the other hand, in Chile everything yields to wealth.
Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.
Salud, Dinero, AmoryTiempo. Health,Wealth, Loveand Time to enjoy them.
Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness.We are selfish men; Oh! raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
We cannot not sayhow muchwealththereisina country till we know how it is shared among its inhabitants.
I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.
Sir, the insolence of wealth will creep out.
Labour is the Father and active principle of Wealth, as lands are the Mother.
The court he practised, not the courtier's art: Large was his wealth, but larger was his heart.
Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found.
There is nothing like wealth for dulling desire.
There is no wealth but life.
Come sleep,O sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, The indifferent judge between the high and low.
The order of nobility is of great use, too, not only in what it creates, but in what it prevents. It prevents the rule of wealthöthe religion of gold. This is the obvious and natural idol of the Anglo-Saxon From this our aristocracy preserves us.
Here, of all her cities, throbbed the true lifeöthe true power and spirit of America; gigantic, crude with the crudityof youth, disdaining rivalry; saneand healthyand vigorous; brutal in its ambition, arrogant in the new- found knowledge of its giant strength, prodigal of its wealth, infinite in its desires.
The labor of women inthehouse, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way [they] are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
In every case, agricultural as well as manufacturing profits are lowered bya rise in the price of raw produce, if it be accompanied bya rise of wages_ The natural tendency of profits istofall; for inthe progress of society and wealth, the additional quantity of food required is obtained by the sacrifice of more and more labour.
I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on. I know not why it should be a matter of congratulation that persons who are already richer than any one needs to be, should have doubled their means of consuming things which give little or no pleasure except as representative of wealth.
Les re¤ publiques finissent par le luxe; les monarchies, par la pauvrete¤ . Republics end by wealth; monarchies end by poverty.
Therichman'swealthishisstrongcity: thedestructionof the poor is their poverty.
There is no road to wealth so easyand respectable as that of matrimony.
Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily lifewithout mingling with it, casts its wealthtoright and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.
We have the menöthe skillöthe wealthöand above all, the will We must be the great arsenal of democracy.
And wealth abides not, it is but for a day.
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
If Enterprise is afoot,Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening toThrift; and if Enterprise is asleep,Wealth decays, whateverThrift may be doing.
Ja" leider desn mac nicht ges|"n, Das guot und wertlich e" re Und gotes hulde me" re Zesamene in ein herze komen. It is sadly impossible For wealth and a good name, along with God's favour, to be united in one heart.
Wealth cannot make a life, but Love.
For I spend all my time going about trying to persuade you, young and old, to make your first and chief concern not for your bodies nor for your possessions, but for the highest welfare of your souls, proclaiming as Igo,Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
Wealth has more and more increased, and at the same time gathered itself more and more into masses, strangely altering the old relations, and increasing the distance between the rich and the poor.
Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me. All I ask, the heaven above, And the road below me.
Wealth, in a commercial age, is made up largely of promises.
Unlike the Laws of Production, those of Distribution are partly of human institution, since the manner in which wealth is distributed in any given society, depends on the statutes or usages therein obtaining.
My wealth is health and perfect ease; My conscience clear my chief defence; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by deceit to breed offence. Thus do I live; thus will I die. Would all did so well as I!
Where Plenty smilesöalas! she smiles for few, And those who taste not, yet behold her store, Are as the slaves that dig the golden ore, The wealth around them makes them doubly poor.
Beneath her torn hat glowed the wealth Of simple beautyand rustic health.
The cold metal of economic theory is in Marx's pages immersed in such a wealth of steaming phrases as to acquire a temperature not naturally its own.
I look forward toa future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint; its wealth with our wisdom; its power with our purpose.
The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company: I gazedöand gazedöbut little thought What wealth the show to me had brought.
Why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease? And all to leave what with his toil he won To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son.
For God's sake, hold your tongue, and let me love, Or chide my palsy, or my gout, My five grey hairs, or ruined fortune flout, With wealth your state, your mind with arts improve, Take you a course, get you a place, Observe his honour, or his grace, Or the King's real, or his stamped face Contemplate; what you will, approve, So you will let me love.
The worker becomes poorer the more wealth he produces and the more his production increases in powerand extent.The worker becomes anevercheaper commodity the more good he creates. The devaluation of the human world increases in direct relation with the increase in value of the world of things. Labour does not only create goods; it also produces itself and the worker as a commodity, and indeed in the same proportion as it produces goods.
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