well-to-do

Speech parts

1. well-to-do - Adjective

2. well-to-do - Phrase

3. well-to-do - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich

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well to do

well to-do

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Examples

The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest. Herbert Croly

The cheesecake was smooth and lush, with the personality of a warm and well-to-do uncle who knows a hundred dirty jokes and will die of sexual exertions in the arms of his mistress. Don DeLillo

In a sense, these people were the vanguard of a well-to-do and well-educated proletariat of the future, boxed up in these expensive apartments with their elegant furniture and intelligent sensibilities, and no possibility of escape. J. G. Ballard

Wherever democracy has prevailed, the power of the State has been used in some form or other to plunder the well-to-do classes for the benefit of the poor. Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

I had no hope whatever of being a professional man. Not only had I been so conditioned that I did not desire it, but the fulfillment of such an ambition was beyond my capabilities. Well-to-do Negroes lived in a world that was almost as alien to me as the world inhabited by whites. Richard Wright

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers. Karl Marx

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