family fortune

collocation in English

meaningsoffamilyandfortune

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family
noun
uk
/ˈfæm.əl.i/us
/ˈfæm.əl.i/
a group of people who are related to each other, such as a mother, a father, and ...
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fortune
noun
uk
/ˈfɔː.tʃuːn/us
/ˈfɔːr.tʃuːn/
a large amount of money, goods, ...
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(Definition offamilyandfortunefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffamily fortune

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As a landed gentleman, however, there is only one way to recover thefamilyfortune, and that is to marry for it.
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Individual ambitions for thefamilyfortuneand social advance subsumed solidaristic impulses.
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Quite unexpectedly, therefore, they became heirs to thefamilyfortune.
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Perhaps the most obvious is the dramatic fall of a man and hisfamilyfortune.
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However, due to the expense of keeping a mistress there and his predilection for gambling, he soon squanders thefamilyfortune.
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A simple wedding ring became afamilyfortune.
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I am sure that this is correct, for unless one is very determined one does not make or ruin thefamilyfortuneat the pin-table.
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I do not know whether he regards this as a sort of rehabilitation of thefamilyfortune; if he does, he has certainly succeeded.
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In these cases the wholefamilyfortuneis in the farm.
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In his younger days, he was addicted to gambling and squandered away hisfamilyfortune.
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An unwise investment in an ecclesiastical wood-carving enterprise soon led to the loss of much of thefamilyfortune.
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Due to the political situation at the time, the enterprise failed and thefamilyfortunewas lost.
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Share sales, a valuable art collection and some small private firms account for the remainder of thefamilyfortune.
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His health in decline and hisfamilyfortunespent, he died in 1941.
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He spent his entirefamilyfortuneand failed to give his deceased younger brother a proper funeral.
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Amberson was a brilliant inventor, but lost thefamilyfortunewhen his invention was stolen yet often blamed others for his failures.
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These led to the loss of thefamilyfortuneas well as his death, attributed to heart disease.
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He pursued several unsuccessful business opportunities, lost hisfamilyfortune, and divorced his wife in 1949.
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This philanthropy, plus continued high living and poor financial management extinguished what remained of thefamilyfortune.
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This action freed up part of thefamilyfortunefor reinvestment in more lucrative fields.
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