better-off
adjective
bet·ter-off
ˌbe-tə-ˈrȯf 
1
: being in comfortable economic circumstances
the better-off people live in the older section of town
2
: being in a more advantageous position
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Millennials are also better-off financially than boomers were at the same age.
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Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2024
Adjusted for inflation, pay has increased very little since 2010, which means people aren’t substantially better-off.
—Hanna Ziady, CNN, 5 July 2024
Unlike their better-off friends, their use of private vehicles hasn’t budged.
—Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024
It's said the better-off will get more than the less well-off from their vouchers; but at least the less well-off can choose a better school for their kids, and break them free from the lifetime consequences of being three grade levels behind in reading.
—Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2023
Slightly better-off Gazans are donating bags of rice and scraps of wood to encampments at UNRWA schools so that evacuees can cook plain rice on campfires and feed dozens.
—Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Oct. 2023
That doesn’t mean that low-income people get higher benefits than better-off people do.
—Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 6 Aug. 2023
Here, the better-off do not serve food to those without.
—Jordan Gale Jan Hoffman, New York Times, 31 July 2023
The author makes the discomfiting argument that better-off Americans benefit, whether knowingly or unknowingly, from the impoverishment of their fellow citizens.
—Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Apr. 2023
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Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2024
Adjusted for inflation, pay has increased very little since 2010, which means people aren’t substantially better-off.
—Hanna Ziady, CNN, 5 July 2024
Unlike their better-off friends, their use of private vehicles hasn’t budged.
—Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024
It's said the better-off will get more than the less well-off from their vouchers; but at least the less well-off can choose a better school for their kids, and break them free from the lifetime consequences of being three grade levels behind in reading.
—Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2023
Slightly better-off Gazans are donating bags of rice and scraps of wood to encampments at UNRWA schools so that evacuees can cook plain rice on campfires and feed dozens.
—Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Oct. 2023
That doesn’t mean that low-income people get higher benefits than better-off people do.
—Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 6 Aug. 2023
Here, the better-off do not serve food to those without.
—Jordan Gale Jan Hoffman, New York Times, 31 July 2023
The author makes the discomfiting argument that better-off Americans benefit, whether knowingly or unknowingly, from the impoverishment of their fellow citizens.
—Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Apr. 2023
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“Better-off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/better-off. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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