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personal fortune

have good fortune or luck VB (a)

clause of payment when at best fortune ECON

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Their traditional occupations are smithing and fortune-telling.
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Funerals ensure comfort and reassurance for the deceased, and promote good fortune for their descendants.
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Their women made a living from peddling, begging, and fortune-telling.
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On her 21st birthday, she will inherit a vast fortune as well as some legal papers that will incriminate her father, a crooked judge.
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Often a rake was also prodigal who wasted his (usually inherited) fortune on gambling, wine, women and song, incurring lavish debts in the process.
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He also made and lost a fortune in business, largely in land speculation.
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His lover tries to mold him into a gilt-edged mirror of upper-class values and ultimately swindles the easily flattered lottery winner out of his fortune.
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Unable to diagonize her ill-health, the maids invited the fortune-teller into the palace to foretell the future of the princess.
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Sixteen years later, the first wife was announced to be the heiress to an overseas fortune as the last-known living relative.
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Through his shrewd business sense, he was able to turn his family's average amount of wealth into a fortune.
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