well-to-do
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of well-to-do
First recorded in 1815–25
Example Sentences
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Others are looking in total disbelief at the police cordon in this very well-to-do Swiss Alpine resort.
From BBC
But the country still has millions of well-to-do shoppers who can afford to splurge on, say, a $6 package of Sam’s Club-exclusive Oreos, with thinner cookies and more cream.
And, really, the well-to-do of California and the rest of the world would never go and pick their own strawberries.
From Los Angeles Times
In fact, over the last 50-plus years, a gilded gallery of the well-to-do have tried and spectacularly failed.
From Los Angeles Times
Like the U.S. broadly, rich people are keeping the party going in New York, and powering a burgeoning local economy that caters to the well-to-do.
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