generational wealth

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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.
    • 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[1], →ISSN:
      “I have no doubt we will land on a resolution that makes her a woman with generational wealth,” Mr. Hassan wrote.
    • 2023, “Sprinter”, performed by Central Cee x Dave:
      We ain't got generational wealth / It's only a year that I've had these millions