affluent adj : having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value; "an affluent banker"; "a speculator flush with cash"; "not merely rich but loaded"; "moneyed aristocrats"; "wealthy corporations" [syn: flush, loaded, moneyed, wealthy] n
1. an affluent person; a person who is financially well off; "the so-called emerging affluents"
2. a branch that flows into the main stream [syn: feeder, tributary] [ant: distributary]

Affluent \Af"flu*ent\, n. A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream.

Affluent \Af"flu*ent\, a. [Cf. F. affluent, L. affluens, -entis, p. pr. See Affluence.]
1. Flowing to; flowing abundantly. ``Affluent blood.'' --Harvey.
2. Abundant; copious; plenteous; hence, wealthy; abounding in goods or riches. Language . . . affluent in expression. --H. Reed. Loaded and blest with all the affluent store, Which human vows at smoking shrines implore. --Prior.

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Wealth is the abundance of valuable resources or material possessions, or the control of such assets. The word wealth is derived from the old English wela, which is from an Indo-European word stem. An individual, community, region or country that possesses an abundance of such possessions or resources is known as wealthy.

The concept of wealth is of significance in all areas of economics, especially development economics, yet the meaning of wealth is context-dependent and there is no universally agreed upon definition. Generally, economists define wealth as "anything of value" which captures both the subjective nature of the idea and the idea that it is not a fixed or static concept. Various definitions and concepts of wealth have been asserted by various individuals and in different contexts.

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