affluent
Most Americans continue to enjoy considerable affluence.
Increasing affluence has led to many consuming a diet with more processed food than fresh vegetables.
This city doesn't enjoy the typical suburban affluence that other areas do.

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affluence | Business English

affluence
noun[ U ]
 ECONOMICSuk /ˈæfluəns/us
the state of having a lot of money and possessions:
This period saw the increase of real wages and affluence in British society.

Examples of affluence

affluence
This reverse means test, usually referred to as an 'affluence test', is believed by its opponents to threaten the political stability of the programme.
Increasing incomes and affluence have fuelled demand for more expansive dwellings.
Since then, the camps have seen a proliferation of markets, and a relative and uneven growth in affluence.
He thence concludes that it is "the suppression of the affluence of the arterial blood to which this paralysis is due" (ibid.).
Table 5 presents the effects of the macro-variables on the poverty risk, when controlled for economic affluence.
Recipes and descriptions of meals portray an unrealistic level of affluence and availability of ingredients.
And this may be in stark contrast to the affluence observed outside of the neighborhood.
The data also indicate markedly higher education and socioeconomic status and greater affluence than unskilled workers.
In particular, in two-person cases more generally, we have to assign absolute priority to people in absolute poverty in conflicts with people living in affluence.
Affluence may only be experienced by a minority of the retired, but there were exemplar individuals in our sample.
Liberalism does far better with affluence than with scarcity.
The money and affluence becomes an asset to start a settlement in life.
But the project has never had that kind of affluence; we had to make do with conventional or traditional methods to some extent.
This apparent affluence is in stark contrast to the rural settlement sites where objects, invariably from secondary deposits, tend to be rare.
For, through much of the period under review, most investigators continued to enjoy sufficient affluence to cushion themselves from irresistible, externally-inflicted financial pressures.
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