apparent prosperity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofapparentandprosperity
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apparent
adjective
uk/əˈpær.ənt/us/əˈper.ənt/
able to be seen ...
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prosperity
noun[U]
uk/prɒsˈper.ə.ti/us/prɑːˈsper.ə.t̬i/
the state of being successful and having a lot ...
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(Definition ofapparentandprosperityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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There isapparentprosperity; profits increase, and dividends get larger.
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I doubt whether agricultural workers have seen much of theapparentprosperity.
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Therefore, we have a volume of unemployment being built up in times ofapparentprosperity.
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Amid all theapparentprosperitywhich we see around us—the motor cars, radio, and television sets.
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There is another lesson in thisapparentprosperity.
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Wool is being affected now, and shipbuilding, and in spite ofapparentprosperitysteel is diminishing, and heavy engineering.
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These subsidies have the disadvantage of making us live in a world of illusion andapparentprosperity.
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Is not that responsible for thisapparentprosperity?
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That will merely lead to anapparentprosperity.
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Perhaps the most dangerous feature of all which faces us in this situation is that we are creating anapparentprosperityby entering upon more war preparations.
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But we should be living in a fool's paradise if we were not to realise that the presentapparentprosperityis not real, but, in a sense, fictitious.
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In these daysapparentprosperityis apt to mislead the country in contrast with real prosperity which is made out of private profits, private savings and private expenditure.
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But when he announced that, despite theapparentprosperityof his group, there would be no dividends, people became suspicious.
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The period was one ofapparentprosperity.
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