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generational wealth

generational wealth noun: assets that are passed down from one generation to the next.

Noun

generational wealth (uncountable)

  1. Assets that are passed down from one generation to the next.
    • I will never sell my stocks. I want to build generational wealth and leave it to my children, and I hope they do the same.
    • “I have no doubt we will land on a resolution that makes her a woman with generational wealth,” Mr. Hassan wrote.2021 August 20, Daisuke Wakabayashi, quoting Scott Hassan, “Who Gets the L.L.C.? Inside a Silicon Valley Billionaire’s Divorce.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    Antonyms:
    poverty trap

Antonyms of generational wealth

Questions about generational wealth

What does generational wealth mean?
Generational wealth means assets that are passed down from one generation to the next.
What part of speech is generational wealth?
Generational wealth is a noun.

Words near generational wealth in the dictionary

  1. generational curse
  2. generational curses
  3. generational lock-in
  4. generational run
  5. generational runs
  6. generational wealth
  7. generationally
  8. generationer
  9. generationers
  10. generationism
  11. generationology

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