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Synonyms

make a fortune

Idioms  

  1. Also, make a small fortune. Earn a great deal of money, as in He made a fortune on the stock market. Similar expressions are, as in Now that their parents have died, they're worth a small fortune. Make a fortune dates from about 1700, and its use with small from the second half of the 1800s.

Example Sentences

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And they see a chance to make a fortune.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

Hua's wishes for the Year of the Horse were straightforward: "Of course, I hope to make a fortune, have a smooth life and stay healthy."

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

They were correctly betting that the winners would make a fortune.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 31, 2025

Posing as an aristocratic novelist, she saw an opportunity to make a fortune - by convincing 1,000 islanders to relocate to a patch of Australian swamp.

From BBC • May 22, 2025

Dad left the air force after he got married because he wanted to make a fortune for his family, and you couldn’t do that in the military.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

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