| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. The quality shared by random, unintended, or unpredictable events or this quality regarded as the cause of such events: chance, fortuitousness, fortuity, hap, hazard, luck. See CERTAIN. 2. That which is inevitably destined: destiny, fate, kismet, lot, portion, predestination. See CERTAIN. 3. A large sum of money: mint. Informal : bundle, pretty penny, tidy sum, wad. Slang : pile. See RICH. 4. Success attained as a result of chance: fortunateness, luck, luckiness. Idioms: good fortune (or luck) . See LUCK. 5. All things, such as money, property, or goods, having economic value: asset (used in plural), capital, mean3 (used in plural), resource (used in plural), wealth, wherewithal. See OWNED. 6. A great amount of accumulated money and precious possessions: affluence, pelf, riches, treasure, wealth. See OWNED, RICH.
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