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well-to-do

adjective as in well-off

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That percentage could have been higher, but the department left single-family zones — which account for most land in such well-to-do areas — largely untouched.

Instead the student stayed with a child from a "well-to-do family", she said.

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Some students are well-to-do retirees looking for a hobby, but the typical aspiring pilot is someone in their 20s.

She met "people of all ages, from all classes, the well-to-do, the middle class and the poor".

From BBC

Instead, he said, he found a mostly white and well-to-do population that was uninterested in activism, except for Latino students who taught him about the Chicano movement.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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