wealth vs poverty

wealth

Definitions

noun

  1. an abundance of material possessions and resources
  2. property that has economic utility: a monetary value or an exchange value
  3. the quality of profuse abundance
  4. the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money

Examples

A few talented writers en dowed with originality and exceptional animation, a few brilliant efforts, isolated, without following, interrupted and recommenced, did not suffice to endow a nation with a solid and imposing basis of literary wealth.

First, it moves a great deal of diffuse wealth and concentrates it in the hands of the war industry.

On paper, we're a one-person-one-vote nation; in reality, we're more than a bit of an oligarchy, in which a handful of wealthy people dominate.

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poverty

Definitions

noun

  1. the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

Examples

But Labour's focus on abolishing child poverty is not, as he (deliberately) patronisingly claims, for the "aah" factor.

That still eludes much of the antipoverty lobby.

Poverty is something that is contagious and infectious in our community.

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