well-to-do
adjective
: having more than adequate financial resources : prosperous
a well-to-do family
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Examples of well-to-do in a Sentence
a doctor who is now quite well-to-do as a result of his successful medical practice
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Sharing the screen with her then-husband Tom Cruise, the pair played a well-to-do New York married couple in the midst of a conflict in their relationship, a plot that feels prescient in relation to their breakup in 2001.
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Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 20 July 2024
Their violence, which has included armed attacks in the well-to-do suburbs of Port-au-Prince and massacres in working class neighborhoods, led to the State Department ordering the departure of non-emergency U.S. embassy staff and U.S. citizens, and a suspension in its visa operations.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 7 July 2024
His Reform campaign in Castle Point – a largely well-to-do coastal district an hour east of London – had been relatively quiet until last month, when charismatic, anti-immigration populist Nigel Farage announced his reentry onto the British political scene.
—Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2024
And what fun to see Felix — now a successful artist — looking so suave and well-to-do after all the drama of his 20s!
—Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 30 June 2024
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Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 20 July 2024
Their violence, which has included armed attacks in the well-to-do suburbs of Port-au-Prince and massacres in working class neighborhoods, led to the State Department ordering the departure of non-emergency U.S. embassy staff and U.S. citizens, and a suspension in its visa operations.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 7 July 2024
His Reform campaign in Castle Point – a largely well-to-do coastal district an hour east of London – had been relatively quiet until last month, when charismatic, anti-immigration populist Nigel Farage announced his reentry onto the British political scene.
—Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2024
And what fun to see Felix — now a successful artist — looking so suave and well-to-do after all the drama of his 20s!
—Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 30 June 2024
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“Well-to-do.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/well-to-do. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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