The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word AFFLUENT
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result AFFLUENT
- American female — elegant and wealthy
- A female, smooth-spoken and well-to-do
- Waste product’s first to go after a flush
- American female - elegant and wealthy
- Worker encloses fine channel: that’s a bit rich
- Rich, a female speaking foreign language well
- Extremely aloof, graceful and rich
- A loud and voluble description of a very rich society
- Loaded condition with directions to be involved in a newspaper
- A female, articulate and rich
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The straight part
We know that "rich" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case rich = affluent.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does AFFLUENT mean?
AFFLUENT noun- Somebody who is wealthy.
- A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream; a tributary.
- Abundant; copious; plenteous.
- (by extension) Abounding in goods or riches; having a moderate level of material wealth.
- Tributary.
- Flowing to; flowing abundantly.