wealthy country

collocation in English

meaningsofwealthyandcountry

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wealthy
adjective
uk
/ˈwel.θi/us
/ˈwel.θi/
rich:
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country
noun
uk
/ˈkʌn.tri/us
/ˈkʌn.tri/
an area of land that has its own government, ...
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(Definition ofwealthyandcountryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thiswealthycountryhas every possibility of providing for its manhood, womanhood and childhood.
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If awealthycountrycannot put roofs on the heads of its citizens, that is a failure of political analysis and will.
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This is a doctrine which must necessarily be applied to awealthycountryin the plenitude of its expenditure.
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But this is awealthycountry, and to-morrow, if war came, it would provide three, four and five times what is now being provided.
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With its oil production, it is potentially awealthycountry.
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It is time that we stopped pretending that, somehow, we are something other than a comparativelywealthycountry.
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It is now awealthycountry, the 11th largest economy in the world.
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These are the 1990s, but a supposedly civilised andwealthycountryis unable to care for people and put a roof over their heads.
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A large number of our people in the great constituencies are without any home defence at all in thiswealthycountry.
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There is no need, in awealthycountrylike this, for the poverty that exists to-day.
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However, the fact remains that peace is the necessary precondition for progress in this relativelywealthycountry, which has oil.
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We live in a world in which every advanced andwealthycountrysubsidises its farmers.
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We are no longer awealthycountry; yet we squander our money as if there were no end to it.
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I cannot understand why equal generosity, or rather justice, should not be done to the soldiers of this far morewealthycountry.
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It must be realised that there has never been awealthycountrywithout wealthy people in it.
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Thiswealthycountry, wealthy in spite of its misfortunes, spends on research something like £120,000 a year.
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What contribution is thiswealthycountryto make?
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We all want to see a prosperous,wealthycountry.
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Does he agree that perhaps the mostwealthycountryin the world could do more?
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It is a scandal that awealthycountrysuch as ours should ignore the plight of pensioners.
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