QUANT
- piece, stroke
- By a stroke of good fortune, Steven was still in his office
VERB + FORTUNE
- have
- bring (sb)
- A horseshoe nailed to your door is supposed to bring good fortune
FORTUNE + VERB
- be on sb's side, favour sb
- For once, fortune was on our side: the weather improved in time for the match
- smile on sb
- Fortune smiled on me that day (= I had good fortune)
PHRASES
- as good/ill fortune would have it
- As good fortune would have it, a bus came along just when I needed it
- a change in/of fortune
- All we can do is hope for a change in fortune
- have the good fortune to do sth
- I had the good fortune to work with people I liked
ADJ
- declining, flagging
- changing, fluctuating, mixed
- a year of mixed fortunes for the company
- economic, electoral
VERB + FORTUNE
- revive
- The party still hopes to revive its flagging electoral fortunes
- follow
- fans who follow the fortunes of their chosen team
FORTUNE + VERB
- change, fluctuate
- A company's fortunes can change overnight
- improve, rise
- decline, fall
- as the country's fortunes rose and fell
PHRASES
- a reversal of fortunes
- The company suffered a great reversal of fortunes when public taste changed
VERB + FORTUNE
- read, tell
- They went to have their fortunes read
ADJ
- considerable, enormous, great, immense, large, substantial, vast
- small (= quite large)
- Rebuilding the house must have cost a small fortune
- family, personal
VERB + FORTUNE
- accumulate, acquire, amass, build (up), make, win
- inherit
- leave (sb)
- Her aunt died and left her a fortune
- lose, squander
- He lost his fortune in the stock market crash of 1929. squandering the family fortune
- seek
- They went to seek their fortune abroad
- be worth
- (informal) Some of those old toys are worth a fortune now
- cost
- (informal)
- pay, spend
- (both informal) She spends a fortune on clothes!
PREP
- ~ from
- He built his fortune from breeding horses
- ~ in
- She made a fortune in the property boom
- ~ on
- They sold their house at the right time and made a fortune on it
- ~ out
- He has amassed a considerable fortune out of trading shares
PHRASES
- fame and fortune
- They went to America in search of fame and fortune
- heir/heiress to a fortune
- He was sole heir to the family fortune
