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/ˈpɹɑspɝɪŋ/
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[ UK /pɹˈɒspəɹɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /pɹˈɒspəɹɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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very lively and profitable
a palmy time for stockbrokers
flourishing businesses
did a thriving business in orchids
a prosperous new business
a thriving tourist center
doing a roaring trade
How To Use prospering In A Sentence
- But as the poorest country in Central America Nicaragua is hardly prospering.
- So far, the cooking and the armorbearer work are prospering beautifully. Tools of Renewal
- Today, decades old, high-quality, American heritage brands such as Woolrich jackets, Red Wing boots, Hamilton shirts and even Zippo lighters are prospering even as their flashy, Euro-sleek competitors are taping sale signs to the front windows.
- Such impropriety on the part of government can only be countermanded by society supporting the very best in its individuals -- making contentment the highest value rather than wealth, status or fame is the necessary re-valuing of values that offers us the surest road to a self-sustaining lifeway that celebrates a long-standing time of peace and prospering for all. William Horden: The Tao Of Green: Love Of Humanity And Nature
- Continual success in obtaining those things which a man from time to time desireth, that is to say continual prospering, is that men call felicityI mean the felicity of this life. Chapter VI. Of the Interior Beginnings of Voluntary Motions, Commonly Called the Passions; and the Speeches by Which They Are Expressed
- Happily, it seems both city centre and out-of-town retailers were prospering at the same time.
- The newly developed satellite town is prospering with each passing day.
- The rope is proper property to the prospering rope maker.
- Continual Successe in obtaining those things which a man from time to time desireth, that is to say, continual prospering, is that men call FELICITY; I mean the Felicity of this life. Leviathan
- Gwalior has been the ‘nerve-center’ of a flourishing civilization prospering on the banks of the river Chambal.