0 to be successful, especially financially -- lykkes
cities that prospered in the industrial era byer som blomstret i industrialderen
1 to do well; to succeed -- trives, ha framgang
His business is prospering.
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.
These alternative institutions prospered because official institutions were no longer recognised as legitimate.
These institutions differed in their theological ethos and prospered for varying lengths of time.
Meanwhile, private commercial cemeteries prospered on the outskirts of major metropolitan areas even as the old churchyards were still being used.
On the other hand, country towns and cottage industries did not really prosper in the rural districts of the north-east.
Good strategies thus survive and prosper while bad strategies decline and go extinct.
