prosperity

[ US /pɹɑˈspɛɹəti/ ]
[ UK /pɹəspˈɛɹɪti/ ]
NOUN
  1. an economic state of growth with rising profits and full employment
  2. the condition of prospering; having good fortune
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How To Use prosperity In A Sentence

  • Fun is the secret ingredient of a lot of great companies, but 10 years of economic prosperity, a resurgent stock market, and the dawning of the dot-com have created other business priorities.
  • We can well afford to let them stare and smile, well knowing that if a similar amount of prosperity permitted the people of other countries to travel for their pleasure in similar numbers, the result would be at the very least an equally -- shall I say undrawing-room-like contribution to cosmopolitan society? Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
  • We are determined to make the 2008 festive season as jolly as any in the past decade or so of unrivalled prosperity. The Sun
  • Its best influence may be indirect, by the example of sudden, transforming prosperity. Times, Sunday Times
  • Every soul shall taste of death; 258 and now, O my son, my decease is at hand and I desire to charge thee with a charge, which if thou observe, thou shalt abide in safety and prosperity, till thou meet The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • (He pointed at the bundle she held, while she nodded proudly, beaming on me with good-nature and consciousness of success and prosperity.) "This overcoat is as good as a blanket," he went on, advancing the skirt of it that I might feel its thickness. THE SPIKE
  • It is generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles and design. Edmund Burke 
  • We have grasped, perhaps more than any other nation, that there is a long-run cost to dependency on the state, including an aversion to risk that eventually enervates the entrepreneurial spirit necessary for innovation and prosperity. Beware of the Big-Government Tipping Point
  • We need to find more sustainable foundations for our future economic prosperity than house prices and debt. Times, Sunday Times
  • Peace, prosperity, democracy, environmental conservation and the elimination of racism and ethnocentrism are all overtly gender-neutral ideals, but each of them is also a distinctively women's issue.
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