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View definitions for make a fortune

make a fortune

verb as in line one's pockets

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verb as in succeed

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What has emerged is the hope that anyone, with the right product and a little bit of luck, can make a fortune in K-beauty.

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Posing as an aristocratic novelist, she saw an opportunity to make a fortune - by convincing 1,000 islanders to relocate to a patch of Australian swamp.

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He invoked a past prosperity, but his actual plans are to make a fortune by swindling the rest of us.

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Jim Simons, a math prodigy who gave up an academic career to make a fortune with the world’s first quantitative investing firm, died last week at the age of 86 at his home in New York City after a battle with lung cancer.

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“All the air is getting sucked out of the room by these for-profit companies who say, ‘Wow, this stuff is awesome, if I could patent it I’d make a fortune.’”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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