prosperous person
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Below it, the bewigged pawnbroker is a rare prosperous person.
From BBC • Jul. 28, 2014
There’s plenty to like about that, but also plenty to dislike if you’re the sort of prosperous person who owns or manages a small or medium-sized firm.
From Slate • Jul. 2, 2012
No one was there, but it was clearly the dwelling of some very prosperous person.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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He looks around, and sees many a prosperous person, who but a few years before was as poor as himself.
From Letters from an American Farmer by St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector
I had the conviction of a prosperous person that the natural emotions of prosperity were about right.
From The Gates Between by Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart