beforehand in the world
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Adjective
beforehand in the world (not comparable)
- (obsolete) In prosperous circumstances; comfortably-off. [17th–19th c.]
- 1798, Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman:
- I almost starved myself, till I once more got beforehand in the world.
- 1811, [Jane Austen], Sense and Sensibility […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], OCLC 20599507:
- I shall see how much I am before-hand with the world in the spring.
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