build family fortune; start a business
Meanings
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to build up a family fortune; to make one's family prosperous; to rise to wealth
Emphasizes accumulating wealth for one's family through hard work or business acumen.
They built up their family fortune through hard work.
Grandfather's generation built the family fortune through small trading, which created the family business we have today.
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Getting rich and building a prosperous family is the dream of many people.
verb
to start a business or undertaking; to build up from scratch
Often used in the idiom 白手起家 (to start from nothing). Focuses on the creation of a business or career.
To build up from nothing; to start from scratch.
He is an entrepreneur who built his business from scratch.
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This tech company was founded five years ago by several university students.
They started from a small workshop and have now developed into a multinational corporation.