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successful or good — especially with regard to finances or wealth
- The sons and the father become prosperous.Chapter 5 (87% in)
prosperous = financially successful
- "To me the greatest wonder in this was not the mere quantity of garments, although that was a miracle in itself," Borgenicht would write years later, after he became a prosperous manufacturer of women's and children's clothing, "but the fact that in America even poor people could save all the dreary, time-consuming labor of making their own clothes simply by going into a store and walking out with what they needed."Chapter 5 (59% in)
prosperous = financially successful
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