the distribution of wealth (=the way wealth is divided among the people of a country or society)wealthwealth /welθ/ ●●○ W3 noun 
The country’s wealth comes from its oil. the distribution of wealth (=the way wealth is divided among the people of a country or society) The purpose of industry is to create wealth.2 a wealth of something a lot of something useful or good: There is a wealth of information available about pregnancy and birth.
WORD ORIGINwealth
Origin:
1200-1300 weal ‘good condition of life, prosperity’ (11-19 centuries), from Old English welaEXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- Gradually we realised that despite the wealth, warmth and comfort, Templecombe held an eerie, sinister air.
- It must be cleaned up and sanitized lest our environment become intolerable and our wealth a curse instead of a blessing.
- Table 8-5 tracks the share of total household wealth held by the richest 1 percent of households between 1922 and 1981.
- The market economic game has to begin with an initial distribution of income and wealth.
- They invest it in creating more wealth.
- This chapter is concerned with the study of the unequal distribution of power, prestige and wealth in society.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY the distribution of wealth (=the way wealth is divided among the people of a country or society) The purpose of industry is to create wealth.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES the Duke’s fabulous wealth The spiritual life is more important than material possessions. a society that places high importance on material rewards a programme to redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor a game that offers untold wealth to the most talented playersCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
the distribution of wealth (=the way wealth is divided among the people of a country or society) The purpose of industry is to create wealth. (=a lot of useful experience)· Between them, the management team have a wealth of experience.
the Duke’s fabulous wealth The spiritual life is more important than material possessions. a society that places high importance on material rewards a programme to redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor (=a large amount of talent)· There’s a wealth of musical talent in New York and other large American cities.
a game that offers untold wealth to the most talented players· The Duke did all he could to track down the miscreants, using his great wealth to bribe informers.· I had no ambitions to achieve great wealth or power or fame.· His great wealth has brought contacts and political influence.· These tended to be people of great wealth.· All this, together with a parsimonious outlook on life, brought him great wealth.· They declared it is sure to guarantee economic expansion and greater wealth all around in the 21st century.· He had become accustomed to great wealth, but he had a social conscience and may even have considered himself a socialist.· Capitalist concentration proceeds; productive plant and resources come to he owned by ever fewer people of ever greater wealth.
· For centuries, material wealth and abundance has been seen as incompatible with spiritual growth.· Studies and statistics underline the fact: 200 large-scale enterprises control about half the fabulous material wealth of the United States.· At the same it reveals a society rich in material wealth.· In particular, a tax on the transfer of material wealth may well make other forms of transfer more attractive.· Food was in short supply, of course, and there were few signs of any material wealth at all.· True, education is often also useful in its results - useful in the sense of promoting the creation of material wealth.
· Black symbolises the people, green the fertility of the land, and gold the mineral wealth from beneath the soil.· But now signs are emerging that the groups have begun to collude with each other to pillage the park's mineral wealth.
· The system would probably need strict control of money supply too, keeping its growth in line with national wealth.· The top 1 percent now own 42 percent of the national wealth.· As our national wealth increased, we have been able to devote much greater resources to these services than ever before.· Its increase measures the increase in national wealth.· The idea would be to compile over a short period a national register of wealth holdings.· Workers must have the ability to obtain their fair share of the national wealth.· How do the various classes fare in terms of participation in national wealth?· They committed themselves to giving 0.7 % of their national wealth to poor countries.
· Employees should also be careful not to stake too much of their personal wealth on the company they work for.· This means that creditors, for example, may pursue the personal wealth of a partner in order to satisfy a partnership debt.· Politics is a game to them in which they can oppress people, victimize them and amass great personal wealth.· For these reasons, rates of reproduction are inversely proportional to personal wealth.· It meant less work, thus freeing them for other activities, such as the pursuIt of personal wealth.· This led to the development of personal privilege and wealth as these native collaborators colluded in the exploitation of their compatriots.· Keane wanted to be in front, but he was distracted by a craving for personal wealth.
· He was younger than McCready by a decade, a high flyer with a good degree and private wealth.· Between their hold on giant pension funds and their private wealth, they dominate political, economic, and social policy.· He suspected there was more private wealth in that one vault than most countries on earth could call on.· In 1992 the richest one percent owned more than 30 percent of the total private wealth.· Is that not an example of private wealth at the expense of public underfunding?
· Temple defined the relationships which constituted our real wealth as existing in terms of family, community and nation.· Since they are non-producers, the bourgeoisie are therefore exploiting the proletariat, the real producers of wealth.· But this is real progress - and the clear result of creating real wealth.· For example, owner-occupiers are considered to derive real wealth from houses as assets.· Bengal was the real source of wealth, and Calcutta the centre of its export trade.· The financial system is in effect a superstructure erected upon the real wealth of a nation - its physical assets.· Taps, she reckoned, were the real symbol of wealth and success.
· In 1971, approximately one-third of the total marketable wealth in Britain was owned by 1% of the population.· Table 8-5 tracks the share of total household wealth held by the richest 1 percent of households between 1922 and 1981.· The main problem with this demand for money function is that of finding a method of measuring total wealth.· In 1992 the richest one percent owned more than 30 percent of the total private wealth.· First, the Keynesian function includes current national income, whereas Friedman is using permanent income as a proxy for total wealth.· Moreover, the top 20 percent of the population owned 84. 6 percent of total wealth.
· The Sultan deposited within this town a vast store of wealth.· In later cultures we find the king or chief buried with vast wealth and often with slaves.· Williamson used some of his vast wealth to provide permanent evidence of his beneficence.· The church's vast wealth was accessible to the king on a scale denied even to the greatest of landed magnates.
NOUN· Another issue, providing a constant theme, was the role of the school in promoting wealth creation.· At least in the short term, wealth creation results in increased selfishness.· We have always argued that the main motivation for government funding of research should be wealth creation.· It regards the private sector as the source of wealth creation, part of which is used to subsidize the public sector.· There is approval ofthe free market for wealth creation and many of the economic policies this entails.· On the issues of the future, especially on wealth creation and technological change, Labour had little to say.· And social services suffered too, as they always will when wealth creation is despised.· Indeed, education itself has an added value that is a form of wealth creation.
· Table 9-1 sketches a picture of income and wealth distribution.· The impact on wealth distribution was already visible by the end of 1992, as Table 8-7 shows.· Another method of collecting information on wealth distribution is to use survey research, but this too has its drawbacks.
· As taxpayers subject to wealth tax, the Chiracs should have declared any amounts of cash they kept during those years.· The Michigan economists take no stand on a wealth tax.· The proposal is not to introduce a wealth tax under the form that it has been proposed elsewhere.· Traditionally, a wealth tax has been considered as another means whereby the Treasury can raise funds.· As we all have the choice of spending or saving, some simple form of wealth tax could be considered, too.· These types of tax take the form of annual wealth taxes, gift taxes and inheritance taxes.· Efficiency is discussed in relation to the wealth tax replacing some income tax or a projected increase in income taxes.· Again, a low wealth tax rate is suggested as a supplement to income tax. 3.
VERB· How fortunate it is that enthusiasts such as Col. Savill have accumulated a wealth of material illustrating the railway scene.· There was enough accumulated wealth for the third Joseph Wright Alsop to pursue a life as country gentleman.· Grumbold's will indicates that he accumulated considerable wealth, acquiring a substantial amount of leasehold property in Cambridge.· By this definition, large, nonprofit firms that exist primarily to accumulate wealth would not qualify.· One key motivating factor is greed and a desire to accumulate more wealth.
· How had the new city fathers acquired the wealth and prestige to embark on these schemes?· In our headlong pursuit to acquire wealth and worldly pleasures, Christians have become virtually indistinguishable from the rest of the world.· Verse 13: although near enough to acquire wealth from maritime trade, Zebulun's territory did not stretch to the sea.· Britain has always acquired its wealth, until the Industrial Revolution, through its agriculture.
· The mysterious tonic and the fine-tooth metal comb brought Walker incredible wealth.· He argues that whaling has brought great wealth to the nations of the world.· Hall, having appeared on stage once before in Bus Stop, brings only a wealth of inexperience.· People brought back such wealth and then converted it into the real coin of the realm, property.· He had brought with him a wealth of experience and he shared many a story of his love of the outdoors.
· It contains an enormous wealth of information and is an extremely comprehensive reference book.· Some 200-plus pages of charts, tables and maps contain a wealth of information from vital data to the trivial and inconsequential.· The exhibition, which contained an extraordinary wealth of art, opened on June 5, 1961.· This book contains a wealth of information on all aspects of regulatory compliance monitoring using atomic spectroscopic analysis techniques.· Her fabulous products for face and body contain a wealth of natural ingredients and have been formulated without animal testing.· The Birmingham area contains a wealth of attractions for transport enthusiasts.
· The Conservative Government always said that we had to create wealth first, and then improve our public services.· You have not engaged in our great and gathering conversation, nor did you create the wealth of our marketplaces.· At stake is whether the scheme will create more wealth than it destroys.· It is this shift in perspective that is creating a wealth of new possibilities.· Finally, arrangements are to be created to redistribute wealth in the region.· Still, a public offering would create instant wealth for the small group of full partners in Goldman Sachs.· This positive mandate to create wealth however is in the context of our fiduciary responsibilities.· They invest it in creating more wealth.
· Adam Smith's view of the great significance of transport developments in increasing the wealth of the nation has been much quoted.· Instead, the open land seemed to cry out for in-creased numbers to develop resources and increase the wealth of all.· The driving force of a flourishing society is individual acquisitiveness which creates demands that boost trade and increase the general wealth.· This is more likely if increasing wealth is matched by increasing population and increasing density of population.· It conflicts with growth, because growth seeks to increase wealth, and sustainability seeks only to preserve it.· Once princes and feudal lords who wished to increase the productive wealth of their domains imported craftsmen as a matter of course.· However, it's recommended you stick to legal means of increasing your wealth.· Again, we can expect long-term influences such as increasing income and wealth to cause a rightward shift of the demand curve.
· Hamilton was one of those unfortunate men who have inherited immense wealth but not a lot more.· The ability to inherit wealth or status from a parent is not unique to man.· He inherited wealth and could have lived a leisured life but preferred to pursue his earlier interest in natural philosophy.· In rich families that have substantial inherited wealth, assets may be primarily in the form of claims on tangible assets.· Her other relations were not interested in her happiness but only in inheriting her wealth, so they said nothing.· This legitimized inherited wealth, for it blessed only the biologically superior.· Like a lot of people who inherit or marry wealth, Straus viewed money abstractly.· Otis despised inherited wealth and class, but he despised a town that was disdainful of growth even more.
· Marx maintained that only labour produces wealth.· An event such as a school centenary can often produce a wealth of material from the local community.· Mr Thornton however produces a wealth of information from literary and archival sources which consolidate many of his assumptions from the pictures.
· Whatever else, this should provide a wealth of entertainment.· Adding great architectural style, the conservatory also provides a wealth of extra colour and light at the back of he house.· This hopefully will provide a wealth of reminiscence and anecdote, and might take place anywhere from Putney to Paris.
· Finally, arrangements are to be created to redistribute wealth in the region.· There is a mechanism for redistributing wealth from the rich to the poor.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a patina of wealth/success etc
1[uncountable] a large amount of money, property etc that a person or country owns: - Fish and game and pineapples ... a wealth of eating.
- From her newspaper stand on High Row, Darlington, Pat reckons she has gained a wealth of experience about human life.
- In an effort to install management control, Gutfreund created a wealth of new titles.
- On the positive side, the authors have assembled a wealth of material.
- Successful nominees to the committee contribute greatly to the Trust's work, offering a wealth of specialist expertise and experience.
- Their data offer a wealth of information for continuing education of community dietitians / nutritionists to become effective leaders.
- These contrasting models provided the task force with a wealth of information and guidance.
- To the informed eye, these simple orthogonal lines concealed a wealth of meaning.
- I enjoyed this comparative freedom and spent a lot of time pacing around the cell.
- The comparative freedom that the close presence of grandparents afforded wives contributed significantly to the high standard of farming seen.
The country’s wealth comes from its oil. the distribution of wealth (=the way wealth is divided among the people of a country or society) The purpose of industry is to create wealth.2 a wealth of something a lot of something useful or good: There is a wealth of information available about pregnancy and birth.