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well-to-do - 2 dictionary results

well-to-do

[wel-tuh-doo]
–adjective
prosperous; rich.

Origin:
1815–25


comfortable; affluent, moneyed.
well-to-do   (wěl'tə-dōō')
adj.  Prosperous; affluent; well-off.
n.   (used with a pl. verb)
Affluent or wealthy people: Demonstrators protested that the tax bill favored the well-to-do.

[From the phrase well to do in the world : well2, prosperous, affluent + to, for + do1, doing.]
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