better-off
Example Sentences
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These retailers are aggressively courting better-off customers at the same time that their traditional customers are cutting back due to inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026
Bankers interpret this as a sign that slightly better-off consumers are absorbing the higher prices, while lower-income customers are increasingly cutting back or seeking cheaper alternatives.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 8, 2026
It’s not to drag the relatively better-off down to the bottom, but to allow more people to pull themselves up.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2025
He said all pensioners would receive the benefit – which is currently either £200 or £300 – without having to apply, but that better-off Scots would pay some of it back.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2024
South Shore hadn’t yet tilted the way other neighborhoods had—with the better-off people long departed for the suburbs, the neighborhood businesses closing one by one, the blight setting in—but the tilt was clearly beginning.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
