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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For Lake, of Agua Chiquite, that prosperous person, had been keeping cases.
From Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove
The man who presently walked in, a tall, grey-bearded, evidently prosperous person, dressed in the height of fashion, glanced keenly from one to the other of the two men who awaited him.
From The Middle of Things by Fletcher, J. S. (Joseph Smith)