0 past simple and past participle of prosper
1 (of a person or a business) to be or become successful, especially financially:
Lots of microchip manufacturing companies prospered at that time.
Wealthy churchmen, it seems, prospered at juniors' expense.
All countries, in his view, prospered through incorporation into the world economy as exporters of raw materials.
Men (and to some extent women) prospered through plots and vendettas.
Moreover, domestic industry hereabouts was not run from towns, and also concentrated as it prospered, contrary to proto-industrialization theory in both respects.
Surprisingly, children reared in hygienic conditions and with medical supervision perished, while those who had returned to their underprivileged families prospered.
She won respect for her medical skill and prospered as an entrepreneur until the declaration of peace rendered her stock obsolete, bankrupting her.
In the sixteenth century the reformation had prospered.
After all, the lord is now a rich man; his voyages must have prospered.
