wealthy individual

collocation in English

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wealthy
adjective
uk
/ˈwel.θi/us
/ˈwel.θi/
rich:
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individual
noun[C]
uk
/ˌɪn.dɪˈvɪdʒ.u.əl/us
/ˌɪn.dəˈvɪdʒ.u.əl/
a single person or thing, especially when compared to the group or set to which ...
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(Definition ofwealthyandindividualfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Responsibility for the provision of equipment was usually shared between the corporate account andwealthyindividualmembers.
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It recognised the need to hold free elections—obviously, allowing awealthyindividualto buy a seat would contravene the principle of free elections.
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Such awealthyindividualmight spend his money in favour of the euro.
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A verywealthyindividualapproached me recently asking for help with his small son, born profoundly deaf and unable to speak.
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Fair play surely demands that there should be some safeguards against the possibility of the whole campaign being skewed by onewealthyindividualor organisation.
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What is the difference between that imbalance and the imbalance created in what might be described as a free-for-all, when onewealthyindividualmight fund one side heavily?
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Awealthyindividual, community, or nation thus has more accumulated resources (capital) than a poor one.
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The parkway got another state park in 2006, when anotherwealthyindividualdonated land.
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In the process, he became an immenselywealthyindividual, a patron of the arts, and a philanthropist.
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On the other hand, awealthyindividualmay be temporarily unemployed and will pay no taxes.
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Since there were nowealthyindividualbackers, most of the income came from numerous smaller donations.
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The government welcomed contributions by wealthy individuals and philanthropists as these donations helped the efforts of stateorganised relief activities.
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At the same time, wealthy individuals may benefit from the existing regime, and democracy may undermine their interests.
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The foundlings may therefore have come from parishes containing wealthy individuals, but also a large degree of poverty and indigence.
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Besides the residence of wealthy individuals, what drew together residential leisure towns and distinguished them from other towns?
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Actually, stories of wealthy individuals attaining political office are the concrete reality behind the feast cliche!
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Those wealthy individuals did not all spring from a single religious group.
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The term characteristically refers to awealthyindividualwho controls through personal business ownership or dominant shareholding position a firm or industry whose goods, products, or services are widely consumed.
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Dilling's anti-intellectualism, combined with a simmering class resentment towards prominent and wealthy individuals, suggests a populist flavor to her argument.
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