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Definition
a person who is financially well off
- To interview any students, Candy and I had to visit places in the more affluent communities like Bloomfield Hills and Grosse Pointe.p. 92.1
- Just a dumb Black kid from the poor side of Detroit who has no business trying to make it through Yale with all these intelligent, affluent students.p. 71.7
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