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well-off

  [wel-awf, -of]
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–adjective
1. having sufficient money for comfortable living; well-to-do.
2. in a satisfactory, favorable, or good position or condition: If you have your health, you are well-off.
Origin:
1725–35

Synonyms:
1. prosperous, wealthy, affluent, comfortable.
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well-off   (wěl'ôf', -ŏf')
adj.  

  1. Well-to-do.

  2. In fortunate circumstances.


[off, circumstanced, probably from the phrase to come well off, to emerge from in good circumstances.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

well-off 
1733, "comfortable," from well (adv.) + off. Meaning "prosperous, not poor" is recorded from 1849.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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