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Wealth

Definitions: Wealth

Wealth

Noun

1. The state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money: "great wealth is not a sign of great intelligence".

2. The quality of profuse abundance; "she has a wealth of talent".

3. An abundance of material possessions and resources.

4. Property that has economic utility: a monetary value or an exchange value.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "wealth" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)


Specialty Definitions: Wealth

DomainDefinitions

Dream Interpretation

To dream that you are possessed of much wealth, foretells that you will energetically nerve yourself to meet the problems of life with that force which compells success.
To see others wealthy, foretells that you will have friends who will come to your rescue in perilous times.
For a young woman to dream that she is associated with wealthy people, denotes that she will have high aspirations and will manage to enlist some one who is able to further them. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Finance

The value of one's total possessions and property rights. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Wealth

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Wealth usually refers to money and property. It is the abundance of objects of value and also the state of having accumulated these objects. The use of the word itself assumes some socially-accepted means of identifying objects, land, or money as "belonging to" someone, i.e. a broadly accepted notion of property and a means of protection of that property that can be invoked with minimal (or, ideally, no) effort and expense on the part of the owner. Concepts of wealth vary among societies.

The Anthropological view of Wealth

Anthropology characterizes societies, in part, based on a society's concept of wealth, and the institutional structures and power used to protect this wealth. Several types are defined below. They can be viewed as an evolutionary progression.

A rudimentary notion of wealth

Great Apes seem to have notions of "turf" and control of food-gathering ranges, but it is questionable whether they understand this as a form of wealth. They acquire and use limited tools but these objects typically do not change, are simple to re-create, and therefore are unlikely to be seen as objects of wealth. Gorillas seem to have the capacity to recognize and protect pets and children, but this seems less an idea of wealth than of family.

The interpersonal concept of wealth

Hominoids, including all human ancestors, seem to have started with incipient ideas of wealth, similar to that of the great apes. But as tools, clothing, and other mobile infrastructural capital became important to survival (especially in hostile biomes), ideas such as the inheritance of wealth, political positions, leadership, and ability to control group movements (to perhaps reinforce such power) emerged. Neanderthal societies had elaborate funerary rites and cave painting which implies at least a notion of shared assets that could be spent for social purposes, or preserved for social purposes. Wealth may have been collective.

Wealth as the accumulation of non-necessities

Humans back to and including the Cro-Magnons seem to have had clearly defined rulers and status hierarchies. Digs in Russia have revealed elaborate funeral clothing on a pair of children buried there over 35,000 years ago. This indicates a considerable accumulation of wealth by some individuals or families. The high artisan skill also suggest the capacity to direct specialized labor to tasks that are not of any utility to the group's survival.

Wealth as control of arable land

Irrigation and urbanization, especially in ancient Sumer and later Egypt, are thought to have triggered a shift that unified the ideas of wealth and control of land and agriculture. To Feed a large stable population, it was possible and necessary to achieve universal cultivation and city-state protection. The notion of the state and the notion of war are said to have emerged at this time. Tribal cultures were formalized into what we would call feudal systems, and many obligations were assumed by monarchy and related aristocracy. Protection of infrastructural capital built up over generations became critical: city walls, irrigation systems, sewage systems, aqueducts, buildings, all impossible to replace within a single generation, and thus a matter of social survival to maintain. The social capital of entire societies was often defined in terms of its relation to infrastructural capital ( e.g. castles or forts or an allied monastery, cathedral or temple), and natural capital, (i.e. the land that supplied locally grown food). Agricultural economics continues these traditions in the analyses of modern agricultural policy and related ideas of wealth, e.g. the ark of taste model of agricultural wealth.

The capitalist notion of wealth

Industrialization emphasized the role of technology. Many jobs were automated. Machines replaced some workers while other workers became more specialized. Labour specialization became critical to economic success. However, physical capital, as it came to be known, consisting of both the natural capital (raw materials from nature) and the infrastructural capital (facilitating technology), became the focus of the analysis of wealth. Adam Smith saw wealth creation as the combination of materials, labour, land, and technology in such a way as to capture a profit. The theories of David Ricardo, John Locke, John Stuart Mill, and later, Karl Marx, in the 18th century and 19th century built on these views of wealth that we now call classical economics and Marxist economics.

Other Concepts of Wealth

Global wealth

Michel Foucault commented that the concept of Man as an aggregate did not exist before the 18th century. The shift from the analysis of an individual's wealth to the concept of an aggregation of all men is implied in the concepts of political economy and then economics. This transition took place as a result of a cultural bias inherent in the Enlightenment. Wealth was seen as an objective fact of living as a human being in a society.

Zero-Sum Game

Some people believe wealth is a zero-sum game, where there is a limited amount of wealth and some must lose in order for others to gain. As a result they are concerned primarily with issues of wealth distribution rather than wealth creation.

Others believe that wealth can be readily created. They feel that wealth is not a fixed amount to be distributed. To most of these people, organizing a society so as to optimize the growth of wealth is more important than distribution issues. Many of these people believe in some version of the trickle-down theory in which newly created wealth "trickles down" to all strata of society, thereby making the question of distribution mute.

One's attitude towards this issue affects the design of the social or economic system that one prefers.

The non-normative concept of wealth

Neoclassical economics tries to be non-normative for the most part, to be objective and free of value statements. If it is successful, then wealth would be defined in such a way that it would not be preconceived to be either positive or negative. This objective has not always been the case. In prior eras wealth was assumed to be a set of means of persuasion.

It was often seen as self-interested arguments by the powerful explaining why they should remain in power. In The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli had commented in that earlier era on the prudent use of wealth, and the need to tolerate some cruelty and vice in the use of it, in order to maintain appearances of strength and power.

Jane Jacobs in the 1960s and 70s offered the observation that there were two different moral syndromes that were common attitudes to wealth and power, and that the one more associated with guardianship did in fact require a degree of ostentacious conspicuous consumption if only to impress others.

This logic is almost entirely absent from neoclassical economics, which in its extreme form argues for the abolition of any political economy apart from the service markets wherein favours may be bought and sold at will, including political ones - the so-called political choice theory popular in the U.S.A. While it is entirely likely that such assumptions apply in the subcultures that dominate modern discourse on technical economics and especially macroeconomics, the less technical notions of wealth and power that are implied in the older theories of economics and ideas of wealth, still continue as daily facts of life.

Non financial wealth

The 21st century view is that many definitions of wealth can exist and continue to co-exist. Some people talk about measuring the more general concept of Measuring well-being. This is a difficult process but many believe it possible - human development theory being devoted to this. Although these alternative measures of wealth exist, they tend to be overshadowed by, and influenced by, the dominant money supply and banking system. For more on the modern notions of wealth and their interaction see the article on political economy.

The Creation of Wealth

Wealth is created through several means.
  • Natural resources can be harvested and sold to those who want them.
Material can be changed into something more valuable through proper application of labor and equipment.
Better methods also create wealth by allowing faster creation of wealth.
Ideas create wealth by allowing it to be created faster or with new methods.

For example, consider our early ancestors. Building a house from trees created something of greater value for the builder. Hunting and firewood created food and fed a growing family. Agriculture converted labor into more food and resources. Continuing use of resources and effort has allowed many descendants to own much more than that first house.

This is still true today. It is more obvious to those working with physical material than to a service worker or knowledge worker. A cubicle worker may not be aware in how many ways their work is creating something which is of more value to their employer than the amount that employer paid to produce it. This profit creates wealth for the owners of the organization. The process also provides income for employees, and suppliers, and it makes the continued existence of the organization possible.

The Limits to Wealth Creation

There is a debate in the economics literature, usually referred to as the limits to growth debate in which the ecological impact of growth and wealth creation is considered. Many of the wealth creating activities mentioned above (cutting down trees, hunting, farming) have an impact on the environment around us. Sometimes the impact is positive (for example, hunting when herd populations are high) and sometimes the impact is negative (for example, hunting when herd populations are low).

Most researchers feel that sustained environmental impacts can have an effect on the whole ecosystem. They claim that the accumlated impacts on the ecosystem put a theortical limit on the amount of wealth that can be created. They draw on archeology to cite examples of cultures that they claim have disappeared because they grew beyond the ability of their ecosystems to support them.

Others are more otimistic. They claim that although localized environmental impacts may occur, large scale ecological effects are either minor (in terms of magnitude) or non-existant. They sometimes claim that if these global scale ecological effects exist, human ingenuity will always find ways of adapting to them. To them, there is no limit to the amount of growth or wealth that this planet will sustain.

The Distribution of wealth

Societies have different opinions about wealth distribution and of the obligations related to wealth, but from the era of the tribal society to the modern era, there have been means of moderating the acquisition and use of wealth.

In extremely ecologically rich areas such as those inhabited by the Haida in the Cascadia Pacific East Rim ecoregion, traditions like potlatch kept wealth relatively evenly distributed, requiring leaders to buy continued status and respect with giveaways of wealth to the poorer members of society. Such traditions make what are today often seen as government responsibilities into matters of personal honour.

In modern societies, the tradition of philanthropy exists. Large donations from funds created by wealthy individuals are highly visible, although small contributions by many people offer a wide variety of support within a society. The existence of organizations which survive on donations indicate that a society has some level of philanthropy.

In today’s societies much wealth distribution and redistribution is the result of government policies and programs. Government policies like the progressivity or regressivity of the tax system redistribute wealth to the poor or the rich respectively. Government programs like “disaster relief” transfer wealth to people that have suffered a loss due to natural disaster. Social security transfers wealth from the young to the old. Engaging in a war transfers wealth to certain sectors of society. Public education transfers wealth to families with children in these schools. Public road construction transfers wealth from people that do not use the roads to those people that do (and to those that build the roads). Some people resent having to contribute to some of these programs and disparagingly label them social engineering. The mere existence of government, transfers wealth from people in the private sector to people in the public sector. Contrawise, the existence of a private sector transfers wealth from people in the public sector to people in the private sector

This phenomenon can be understood within a broad theory of political economy, where tradeoffs between means of protection, persuasion and production, and valuations of different styles of capital, are described. Simply put, if the rich do not at least once in a while give away, on their own free will, at least a small part of their richness to the poor, the poor would be much more likely to rebel against the rich.

The concepts of owning land and accumulating wealth in the form of land, were and are difficult to characterize in Enlightenment terms, bearing more resemblance to modern ideas of bioregionalism or ecological stewardship or natural capital. Ecological economics continues these traditions.

Related articles

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Wealth."

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Synonyms: Wealth

Synonyms: riches (n), wealthiness (n). (additional references)
Antonym: poverty (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Wealth

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Acquisition

Sweepstakes, trick, prize, pool; pot; wealth.

Money

Noun: money, legal tender; money matters, money market; finance; accounts; funds, treasure; capital, stock; assets;(property); wealth; supplies, ways and means, wherewithal, sinews of war, almighty dollar, needful, cash; mammon.

Prodigality

Phrase: amor nummi; facile largiri de alieno; wie gewonnen so zerronnen; les fous font les festins et les sages les mangent; "spendthrift alike of money and of wit"; "squandering wealth was his peculiar art".

Property

Assets, belongings, means, resources, circumstances; wealth; money; what one is worth, what one will cut up for; estate and effects.

Prosperity

Noun: prosperity, welfare, well-being; affluence; (wealth); success; thrift, roaring trade; good fortune, smiles of fortune; blessings, godsend.

Wealth

Verb: be rich; Adjective: roll in wealth, roll in riches, wallow in wealth, wallow in riches.

Noun: wealth, riches, fortune, handsome fortune, opulence, affluence; good circumstances, easy circumstances; independence; competence; (sufficiency); solvency.

Made of money; rich as Croesus, filthy rich, rich as a Jew; rolling in riches, rolling in wealth.

Income; capital, money; round sum; (treasure); mint of money, mine of wealth, El Dorado, bonanza, Pacatolus, Golconda, Potosi.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Wealth

English words defined with "wealth": hoarded wealth. (references)
Specialty definitions using "wealth": current tax on wealth ♦ Gospel of Wealth ♦ Rome's best Wealth is Patriotism. (references)
Etymologies containing "wealth": Commonwealth ♦ Lucullite ♦ Opulent ♦ Plutarchy, Plutology ♦ Wealthful. (references)

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Modern Usage: Wealth

DomainUsage

Screenplays

The richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. (Wall Street; writing credit: Stanley Weiser and Oliver Stone. Starring Charlie Sheen as Bud Fox, Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko, and Martin Sheen as Carl Fox.)

A Cromwell would call up five million coloured men from the Empire, and not drain Britain of her wealth producing resources. (Labour of Love; writing credit: Andrea Piva)

Wealth can be very empty when you don't have someone to share it with. (Anne of Green Gables; writing credit: Lucy Maud Montgomery; Kevin Sullivan)

A life of wealth and fame, wealth and fame! (Tommy; writing credit: Pete Townshend; Ken Russell)

What else can he do? Do you have any idea what I would do with his abilities? The wealth, the power he could amass. (Smallville; writing credit: Richard Pinto; Sharat Sardana)

Lyrics

I'm just a lonely pilgrim I walk this world in wealth (BRILLIANT DISGUISE; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

In a spectacle of wealth and poverty (Carnival; performing artist: Natalie Merchant)

Chasin' the fame and wealth (Daydreamin'; performing artist: Tatyana Ali)

Clever

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost: when health is lost, something is lost: when character is lost, all is lost. (references; author: German Proverb)

Wealth buys leisure, but not wisdom. (references; author: unknown)

We spent our whole youth to obtain wealth, and our whole wealth to obtain youth. (references; author: unknown)

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money. (references; author: unknown)

If wealth is lost, nothing is lost. If health is lost, something is lost. If character reputation is lost, everything is lost. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Share the Wealth (1936)

Chasing Wealth (1923)

Accidental Wealth (1922)

Wealth (1921)

When Wealth Torments (1912)

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Commercial Usage: Wealth

DomainTitle

References

  • Wealth Management Software Plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

  • Creating Affluence: Wealth Consciousness in the Field of All Possibilities/Cassette (reference)

  • The ABCs of Gold Investing: Protecting Your Wealth Through Private Gold Ownership (reference)

  • Saving Adam Smith: A Tale of Wealth, Transformation, and Virtue (reference)

  • The quest for wealth : a study of acquisitive man /by Robert L. Heilbroner (reference)

  • The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (reference)

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Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

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Image Slideshow: Wealth

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Photo Album: Wealth

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This Hubble telescope image [right] reveals a faint galaxy, the home of a quasar. The wealth ...Credit: NASA.

Native home with Yapese money stones indicating great wealth. Stones were mined on Palau and carried by outrigger canoe 300 miles. Money stones are quarried from stalactites in limestone caves.Credit: Small World.

World Health Day : Children's Health Tomorrow's Wealth.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

The Author of The Wealth of nations / Kay, fecit.Credit: Library of Congress.

Corn crib on owner-operated farm of G.H. West near Estherville, Iowa. Note wealth of equipment.Credit: Library of Congress.

The war of wealth.Credit: Library of Congress.

War of wealth.Credit: Library of Congress.

The wealth of Ireland for the people of Ireland : EEC no!.Credit: Library of Congress.

Ireland's mineral wealth -- who owns Navan? : nationalisation without compensation.Credit: Library of Congress.

Arab oil wealth : Black Africa still waits -- and waits --.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Familiar Quotations: Wealth

AuthorQuotation

Aesop

Wealth unused might as well not exist.

Douglas MacArthur

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

Eustache Deschamps

Better honor than shameful wealth.

Henry David Thoreau

The only wealth is life.

Jean De La Fontaine

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

John Dryden

War seldom enters but where wealth allures.

M. Wren

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first wealth is health.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Wealth

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

Hence it is a mistake to think, that the supreme or legislative power of any common- wealth, can do what it will, and dispose of the estates of the subject arbitrarily, or take any part of them at pleasure. (Second Treatise of Government)

Communist Manifesto

1848

He becomes a pauper, and pauperism develops more rapidly than population and wealth. (reference)

Treaty of Versailles

1919

The amount contributed by the mines and their accessories and subsidiaries, either to the local budget of the territory of the Saar Basin or to the communal funds, shall be fixed with due regard to the ratio of the value of the mines to the total taxable wealth of the Basin. (reference)

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Use in Literature: Wealth

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

My first displays the wealth and pomp of kings, Lords of the earth!

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

Carroll, Lewis

We cannot deny his absolute right to give the superfluous wealth as he chooses.

A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

His wealth is of no use to him.

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

As his wealth increased, invitations rained in on him.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

The air of wealth and repose diffused about them seemed to comfort their neediness.

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Near the door three slot machines, showing through glass the wealth in nickels three bars will bring.

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Wealth

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

A tremendous opportunity exists to effectively change the ways in which the public understands drug abuse and addiction because of the wealth of scientific data NIDA has amassed. (references)

The evidence supporting a causal relationship between blood cholesterol levels and coronary heart disease comes from a wealth of congruent results of genetic, experimental pathologic, epidemiologic, and intervention studies. (references)

Business

Demand for new sophisticated equipment is low but expected to increase with the GOKs anticipated oil wealth. (references)

The move to digital is expected to create a wealth of opportunities for voice and data communications equipment suppliers. (references)

By contrast, in southern Italy, despite a wealth of natural and cultural attractions, tourism is still a relatively unexploited resource. (references)

Civil Liberties

Turkey

Restoration or construction may be carried out in buildings and monuments considered "ancient" only with authorization of the regional board on the protection of cultural and national wealth. (references)

Discrimination

Tonga

Nonetheless it is possible for ordinary citizens to rise to cabinet positions in government and to accumulate great wealth and status in the private sector. (references)

Ethiopia

The law provides that all persons should have equal and effective protection without discrimination on grounds of race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, wealth, birth, or other status. (references)

Economic History

Denmark

Visitors to Denmark will discover a wealth of cultural activity. (references)

Malawi

Financial wealth is generally concentrated in the hands of a small elite. (references)

Qatar

For centuries, the main sources of wealth were pearling, fishing, and trade. (references)

Human Rights

Libya

As part of the campaign to implement the Purge Law, the wealth of the middle class and affluent has been targeted as well. (references)

Bolivia

A prisoner's wealth can determine cell size, visiting privileges, day-pass eligibility, and place or length of confinement. (references)

South Africa

The TRC also called for increased counseling services for victims of trauma, and consideration of a mechanism for restitution, such as a wealth tax. (references)

Indigenous People

Angola

Unlike in the previous year, there were no reports that some members of indigenous groups committed suicide upon loss of their wealth or property. (references)

Minorities

Togo

Many citizens believe that Nigerian Ibos kill young women, drain their blood, and steal their sex organs to perform voodoo to accumulate wealth, health, or protection. (references)

Political Economy

New Zealand

Disparities in wealth are small but increasing. (references)

Trade

Yemen

The Ministry of Fish Wealth limits the export of certain categories of seafood products. (references)

Azerbaijan

Although the Bank will continue to assist Azerbaijan's oil and gas sector in order to realize the long-awaited economic recovery and the fair distribution of the wealth created by this sector, it will pay special attention to a greater diversification of Azerbaijan's economy. (references)

Thailand

Social development projects include health care, rural development, urban relief, institutional development, technology transfer, human resource development and wealth creation through rural industries . In the private sector projects include financing for participation in large infrastructure privatization, independent power and telecommunications, agricultural development and irrigation schemes, environmental technology, investment in manufacturing facilities, transportation, and, increasingly, the development of small and medium sized enterprises. (references)

Travel

Russia

While there is little overt anti-American sentiment in Russia, Westerners are often targeted because of their perceived wealth, and street criminals operate in areas frequented by tourists and business travelers. (references)

Women

Mali

For example, men inherit most of the family wealth, and women receive a much smaller portion of estates. (references)

Pakistan

In rural areas, the practice of a woman "marrying the Koran" still is accepted widely if the family cannot arrange a suitable marriage or wants to keep the family wealth intact. (references)

Worker Rights

India

In some cases former sex workers and brothel owners act as procurers or work through contacts in village to dazzle impoverished villagers with their wealth in order to entice women into the business. (references)

Tajikistan

Traffickers include individuals who rose to positions of power and wealth as field commanders during the Tajik civil war, the so-called "warlords." Others are extremely powerful local figures who use their wealth to cultivate patron-client relationships throughout their community; this creates a network that communicates supply and demand for trafficking victims. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

EULOGY, n. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

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Spoken Usage: Wealth

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Rush Limbaugh

The idea that you're evil and need to be kept down as soon as you accumulate a little wealth is obscene.

Scott Thorson

I was in foster homes. And then all of a sudden, boom, all this wealth, all this fame, you know. So I did whatever I had to do.

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Speeches: Wealth

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

George Washington

1789-1797Besides that, it should be repugnant to the vital principles of our Government virtually to exclude from public trusts talents and virtue unless accompanied by wealth.

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.

Franklin Pierce

1853-1857The apprehension of dangers from extended territory, multiplied States, accumulated wealth, and augmented population has proved to be unfounded.

Dwight Eisenhower

1953-1961Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible--from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of our soil to the genius of our scientists.

John F. Kennedy

1961-1963For we are not developing the Nation's wealth for its own sake.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969In a land of great wealth, families must not live in hopeless poverty.

Richard Nixon

1969-1974We have shared our wealth more broadly than ever.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989Some of those I met were a little surprised that I didn't apologize for America's wealth.

George Bush

1989-1993Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001USA accounts will help all Americans to share in our nation's wealth and to enjoy a more secure retirement.

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Usage Frequency: Wealth

"Wealth" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.79% of the time. "Wealth" is used about 3,740 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (singular)99.79%3,7322,602
Noun (common)0.16%6143,867
Noun (proper)0.05%2245,945
                    Total100.00%3,740N/A

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Usage in Company Names: Wealth

CountryNameCountryName
United Kingdom

Wealth Management Software Plc

USA

FAS Wealth Management Services, Inc.

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Expressions: Wealth

Expressions using "wealth": acquire wealth ♦ Active wealth ♦ conscription of wealth ♦ craving for wealth ♦ current tax on wealth ♦ death is no respecter of wealth ♦ gain wealth ♦ hoarded wealth ♦ mine of wealth ♦ mineral wealth ♦ national wealth ♦ personal wealth ♦ pile up wealth ♦ roll in wealth ♦ rolling in wealth ♦ solidarity tax on wealth ♦ tax on wealth ♦ taxable wealth ♦ the worship of wealth ♦ untold wealth ♦ wallow in wealth ♦ wealth effect ♦ wealth of ♦ wealth of details ♦ wealth tax. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "wealth": wealth-creating, wealth-creation, wealth-creators, wealth-generating, wealth-guards, wealth-holders, wealth-holding, wealth-losing, wealth-maximizing, wealth-owners, wealth-ownership, wealth-producers, wealth-producing, wealth-related, wealth-sharing.

Ending with "wealth": high-wealth, income-wealth, mega-wealth, shareholder-wealth, super-wealth.

Containing "wealth": common-wealth-men, sort-of-wealth-tax.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Wealth

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day		  ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  wealth

565

  the gospel of wealth

21

  everyday wealth

309

  2003 report wealth world

21

  wealth building

273

  feng shui wealth

20

  wealth management

170

  international wealth success

19

  wealth creation

149

  phoenix wealth management

18

  the wealth of a nation

72

  bloomberg manager wealth

17

  creation property wealth

63

  cornerstone wealth

17

  company everyday marketing review wealth

62

  private wealth management

16

  kcm wealth

44

  wealth builder international

16

  creating wealth

40

  wealth management services

15

  create wealth

31

  wealth preservation

13

  health wealth

30

  transforming debt into wealth

13

  adam smith wealth of nation

30

  private banking and wealth management

12

  common wealth

25

  wealth lab

12

  common wealth edison

24

  bill gate wealth

12

  building estate from rag real riches through wealth

24

  true wealth

11

  distribution of wealth

23

  wealth without boundary

11

  bill gate personal wealth clock

22

  wealth planning

11

  world wealth report

22

  common virginia wealth

11

  wealth builder

22

  sdi wealth institute

11
  

wealth transfer

11
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Modern Translations: Wealth

Language Translations for "wealth"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

pasuri (asset, fleshpot, fortune, independence, mammon, mean, moneybags, opulence, ownership, pelf, pregnancy, resource, riches, richness), pasje (tenure), kamje (affluence, competence, competency), bollëk (abundance, affluence, ampleness, amplitude, exuberance, exuberancy, flowing, galore, opulence, plenitude, plenty, plethora, profusion, redundance, redundancy, riches, richness, store, superfluity). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏يسار (left), ‏وفرة (abundance, affluence, amplitude, exuberance, generosity, glut, liberality, opulence, opulent, plenty, profusion, pullulation, redundance, redundancy, richness, superfluity), ‏غنى (affluence, chant, croon, enrich, make money, opulence, perform, render, riches, richness, sang, sing, sung, warble), ‏غزارة (abundance, exuberance, grubbiness, massiveness, opulence, plenty, profusion, redundance, redundancy, superabundance), ‏جزل, ‏ثروة (fortune, mammon, opulence, pelf, purse, resource, resources, riches, substance, treasure). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

голямо изобилие, благосъстояние (flesh-pots, welfare, well being). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

財帛 (money), 財富 (riches), 財 (money, property, riches, valuables), 财富, 訾 (backbite, dislike). (various references)

   

Czech

  

majetek (belongings, estate, holding, means, possession, property), bohatství (amplitude, fortune, gold, great fortune, mammon, money bag, opulence, possessions, riches, richness), boháèi. (various references)

   

Danish

  

rigdom (abundance, affluence). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

rijkdom, rýkdom (abundance, affluence). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

riĉeco (abundance). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

مال (For, Fortune, Lucre, Property), وفور (Abundance, Affluence, Bounty, Lavish, Opulence, Plurality, Profusion, Superabundance), تمول , توانگری 2, زیادی 2, ثروت (Fortune, Gold, Mammon, Money, Possession, Treasure, Worth), داراءی (Asset, Estate, Fortune, Possession, Property, Purse, Thing). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

vauraus (affluence, prosperity), varallisuus (means), varakkuus, runsaus (abundance, plenty, profusion), rikkaus (abundance, riches richness), omaisuus (estate, property), äveriäisyys. (various references)

   

French

  

richesse, fortune (wealthiness). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

rykdom (abundance, affluence), rikens (abundance, affluence). (various references)

   

German

  

Reichtum (abundance, affluence, exuberance, fortune, luxuriancy, mammon, opulence, ornateness, plenty, prosperity, resource, richness, store, treasure, wealthiness, wideness), Wohlstand (affluence, fortune, prosperity, well-being). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

περιουσία (belongings, estate, fortune, holding, possessions, property, substance), πλούτη (fortune, riches), πλούτοσ (mammon, nabobery, nabobism, opulence, opulency, pelf, riches, richness). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

שפע (abundance, affluence, affluency, excess, exuberance, glut, luxuriance, opulence, plenty, plethora, profusion, riches, superabundance, surfeit), קנין (acquisition, asset, cattle, chattels, ownership, property), עושר (abundance, affluence, affluency, lucre, opulence, riches, richness), עשירות (richness), אמידות (prosperity, sufficiency of means), און (potency, power, strength, substance), חוסן (might, power, strength, sturdiness), הון (capital, riches), גבירות (affluence, richness), טוב (fair, good, goodness, kind, property, well), רכוש (capital, estate, hold, possession, property, substance), נכס (asset, possession, property, riches). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vagyon (asset, bank-roll, estate, fortune, goods, opulence, pelf, possessions, property, riches, shekels, substance, title), jólét (abundance, comfort, flesh-pots of egypt, flourish, pecuniary ease, plenty, prosperity, sufficiency, weal, welfare, well being). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

kekayaan (affluence, assets, means). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ricchezza (abundance, affluence, means, money, richness), opulenza (affluence, luxuriancy, opulence, richness, wealthiness). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

富裕 (opulence, riches). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しりょく (desperate effort, eyesight, means, resources), ぶんげん (social standing), ぶげん (insult, social standing), ふりょく (buoyancy, floating power, resources), ふゆう (floating, May fly, opulence, rich and famous, riches, something ephemeral, suspension, wafting, wandering), ほうふ (abundance, ambition, aspiration, bounty, plenty, pretension), かざい (household belongings, material used for flower arrangement, worldly goods), いんぷ (book of seals, harlot, prosperity), とみ (fortune). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

부 (blowing, Department, loosening, subordinate, VICE). (various references)

   

Manx

  

cowrey (attribute, badge, beacon, brand, caret, character, check, denotation, emblem, evidence, feature, gesture, hint, indication, intimation, mark, marque, motion, sign, signal, stamp, symbol, symptom, token, trace), berchys (opulence, riches, richness, substance), berchid (opulence, richness). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

rikesa (abundance, affluence). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ealthway

   

Portuguese

  

riqueza (abundance, affluence, fullness, fulness, gold, mellowness, moneybag, opulence, pelican, pregnant, property, prosperity, riches, richness, success, treasure). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

stare (class, condition, estate, fortune, humor, humour, keep, plight, posture, property, rank, remaining, repose, rest, situation, sort, standing, state, station, way), mijloace (means, resource, resources, sinew), comoarã (duck, gem, hoard, knock out, love, mine, precious, riches, spoil, thesaurus, treasure, treasury), bogaţi, bogãţie (abundance, ampleness, amplitude, bag, copiousness, fortune, luxury, money bag, opulence, plenty, profusion, prosperity, riches, richness, valuables), belşug (abundance, affluence, amplitude, copiousness, exuberance, exuberancy, flow, galore, luxuriance, opulence, plenty, profusion, riches, store, thriving), avuţie (mammon, riches), avere (all, assets, belongings, effect, estate, fortune, gold, goods, having, means, opulence, patrimony, possession, property, substance). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

богатство (abundance, affluence, deep pocket, exuberance, exuberancy, fleshpot, fortune, luxuriance, mammon, money, moneybags, oof, opulence, pelf, pregnancy, riches, richness, wealthiness). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

toic, stòras (abundance, store), maoin (goods and gear, property), iunntas, earras (property). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

imućnost (opulence), bogatstvo (affluence, fortune, moneybags, opulence, pelf, resource, riches, richness, weal). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

riqueza (abundance, affluence, ennoblement, love, mammon, money, moneybag, riches, richness). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

rikedom (abundance, affluence, luxuriance, mammon, opulence, riches, richness, variety, wealthiness), välstånd (affluence, competence, competency, opulence, plenty, prosperity, wealthiness). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

zenginlik (abundance, affluence, circumstance, circumstances, fortune, opulence, prosperity, riches, richness, substance, substantiality), varlık (asset, being, circumstance, circumstances, creature, criter, entity, estate, existence, havings, means, possession, possessions, presence, property, stock, subsistence), servet (abundance, affluence, assets, effects, fortune, gold, havings, means, pile, possessions, property, riches, shekels, substance, treasure), mal varlığı (assets), bolluk (abundance, affluence, ampleness, amplitude, bonanza, copiousness, cornucopia, effusion, effusiveness, exuber