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family fortune

collocation in English

meanings of familyand fortune


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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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Examples of family fortune


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