affluence

affluent | American Dictionary

affluent
adjective
us/ˈæfˌlu·ənt, əˈflu-/
having a lot of money or possessions; rich:
We live in an affluent neighborhood.

affluence

noun[ U ]us/ˈæfˌlu·əns, əˈflu-/
She makes a display of affluence.

affluent | Business English

affluent
adjective
uk /ˈæfluənt/us
having a lot of money and possessions:
The store will benefit from its base of affluent customers to whom various other products will be sold in due course.
Some have argued that ethical food is a sign of an affluent society with a lot of time.

Examples of affluent

affluent
The public expenditure on blood tests in affluent countries, for instance, could feed entire regions in developing countries.
This scheme showed that rehabilitation of historic buildings could provide accommodation at affordable prices for the less affluent.
Instead, local producers were limited to the amount of material they could import from affluent production zones, either directly or through intermediate centers.
Hypotheses were that associations between self-reported psychopathology and substance use would be stronger among affluent, suburban youth than among their inner-city counterparts.
Leaders in many affluent societies, however, have sought to implement increasingly adventurous welfare reforms since the early 1990s.
Some who entered adult life in this period are affluent and focus on quality of life goals rather than breadand-butter material issues.
That's the advantage or disadvantage (laughs) of working in this affluent area.
Working-class students are more likely than their more affluent peers to leave school early, and so lack the qualifications required for university entrance.
Such was the case for several participants from affluent backgrounds who used personal trainers, patronised well-known hair-salons, and bought designer clothes.
While some concessions were made to less affluent residents, commercial development and workshops were assiduously discouraged.
These four variables provide a preliminary framework for analysing leaders' reframing capabilities whilst exploring broad departures in welfare frames across affluent societies.
My starting point for this article was the evidence of 'stalled well-being', despite rising personal and national incomes in the affluent countries.
More research on the complex and flexible contemporary relationships between affluent older people and their children is required.
At the initial visit, participants were predominantly middle to upper middle class, but inner city families on welfare and affluent families also participated.
Significantly, those worthy and affluent gentlemen did not stir.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.