{
    "term": "wealth",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a large amount of money, property, etc. that a person or country owns",
            "labels": "(informal)(informal)(British English)(North American English)(informal)(informal)(informal)(British English)(US English)(formal)(especially North American English)(British English)(especially British English)(especially British English)(North American English usually)(informal)(informal)especially North American English",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the desire to gain **wealth and power**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He has pledged to redistribute the country's vast **oil wealth**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their aim is to keep taxes low enough to encourage **wealth creation**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a person of wealth and influence"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The purpose of industry is to create wealth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His personal wealth is estimated at around $100 million."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the distribution of wealth in Britain"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He has no family with whom he can share his wealth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He lost his wealth through poor investment."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's never flaunted his wealth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It is a country of fabulous wealth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Rising employment and household wealth are bolstering spending."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She enjoys enormous wealth and material pleasures."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She is a woman of untold wealth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She wants to protect their new-found wealth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The average family increased its net wealth by 50% between 1989 and 2001."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a redistribution of wealth through taxation"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a tax on inherited wealth"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the accumulated wealth from his business"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the great oil wealth of the region"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the kind of capital that generates new wealth"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the pursuit of instant wealth"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the total wealth of the global economy"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She called for a redistribution of wealth and power in society."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There will undoubtedly be new taxes on corporate wealth."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Money"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["considerable", "enormous", "fabulous"],
                "verb + wealth": ["have", "possess", "accumulate"],
                "phrases": ["a distribution of wealth", "a redistribution of wealth"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the state of being rich",
            "sensetop": "wealth of somebody/something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Good education often depends on wealth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The new rich elite publicly flaunted their wealth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the relative wealth of the nation",
                    "contextForm": "wealth of somebody/something"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["considerable", "enormous", "fabulous"],
                "verb + wealth": ["have", "possess", "accumulate"],
                "phrases": ["a distribution of wealth", "a redistribution of wealth"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a large amount of something",
            "sensetop": "wealth of something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The website provides a wealth of information."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The new manager brings **a great wealth of experience** to the job."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Switzerland has an enormous wealth of beautiful old buildings."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This chapter contains a wealth of information in a very concise form."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The country's strong economy was built on its mineral wealth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The region possesses a vast natural wealth, particularly of timber."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["enormous", "great", "immense"],
                "verb + a wealth of": ["have", "offer", "provide"],
                "preposition": ["of … wealth"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/welθ/",
                "audio": "we/wealth/wealth__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/welθ/",
                "audio": "we/wealth/wealth__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English welthe, from well ‘good’ or weal ‘for the best of someone/​something’, on the pattern of health."
}