affluents

Noun

affluent (plural affluents)

1. Someone who is wealthy.
   • The affluents are most similar to the professional want-it-alls in their reasons for preferring specific hospitals and in their demographic characteristics.1994, Philip D. Cooper, Health care marketing: a foundation for managed quality, page 183

   Synonyms:

   capitalist, fat cat, HNWI, moneybags, rich person

2. A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream; a tributary.
   • It [Central Asia] is separated from the river-system of the Aral and Caspian Seas, […] from the affluents of the Indus and Ganges, on the south, by the chain of the Küen-lün, the rival of the Himalayas, […]1874, Bayard Taylor, compiler, “The Countries of Central Asia”, in Central Asia. Travels in Cashmere, Little Tibet, and Central Asia (Illustrated Library of Travel, Exploration, and Adventure), New...

   Synonyms:

   influent

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