0 present 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.
For many institutions it is no longer a question of prospering but surviving.
And, as the tone of this article indicated, mining was in a less than prospering condition.
These chapters demonstrate that while democracy seemed to be prospering and was eulogised by political writers, certain developments indicated danger.
Other countries are still prospering by dint of doing what we have destroyed our capacity to do.
These networks are multiplying and prospering by exploiting more and more human beings.
For example, no one can say that the distributive trades are not prospering.
Up to that moment the industry as a whole was prospering and progressing.
But the industry which is prospering is modern industry and industry which employs relatively small numbers of people.
