Sentence examples for Affluent from inspiring English sources

The word 'affluent' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe someone or something that is wealthy or rich. For example, "The affluent family owned a sprawling estate and numerous luxury cars."

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Affluent

noun

Somebody who is wealthy.

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And third, the government is introducing a range of support for students from less affluent families for which she may well be eligible.

The only South Yorkshire seat that is not a Labour stronghold, Sheffield Hallam is often described as the most affluent constituency outside the south-east.

We now have to find £110m in savings next year - £60m more than expected - because of front-loading and the re-distribution of money from Manchester to more affluent areas.

It is only because the pay and conditions of leading professional footballers were so recently those of moderately skilled factory helots that Best and his contemporaries look so excessively and immodestly affluent".

"The re-drawing of the regional boundaries took many of the city's most affluent suburbs into neighbouring local authorities, such as East Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire," he said, "and this began to distort the picture".

The most affluent family in Britain, headed by Major General Gerald Grosvenor, owns 77 hectares (190 acres) of prime real estate in Belgravia, London, and has been a beneficiary of the foreign money flooding in to the capital's soaring property market in recent years.

I remember catching the vaporetto down Venice's Grand Canal, gazing up at the obviously more affluent tourists sipping prosecco in glasses (not plastic cups) on palazzo terraces (not windowsills), and I think I actually sighed.

"Analysis of the data concludes that the necessity of deficit reduction on the scale undertaken by the coalition is debatable; yet it is certainly the case the austerity agenda could have taken an alternative form – such as additional tax rises targeted on more affluent sections of society – in order to mitigate its impact on the most deprived groups.

There's also a concentration of "allergic" children in affluent districts, while children in underprivileged areas remain remarkably non-afflicted, or at least non-diagnosed.

This place is rich, or, in the word of those having a drink that evening in the Beehive pub, it is affluent.

What started off as an unorganised party of Russian surfer dudes has now turned into one of the most important events in the calendars of the new, burgeoning, affluent, young middle classes of Russia and Ukraine.

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