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well-off

adjective as in successful, wealthy

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Students in Northern Ireland from less well-off backgrounds can also get a separate maintenance grant of up to £3,475, depending on their household income.

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She said low-income households that worked in burn areas are now out of work, while comparatively well-off homeowners have lost their houses and are looking for rental housing.

Larry Gross, executive director for the tenant rights group Coalition for Economic Survival, said he’s worried about thousands of relatively well-off refugees being forced into the region’s tight rental market.

Madoff's victims were a mixture of wealthy individuals, less well-off people and companies - both large and small - as well as schools, charities and pension funds.

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At secondary school in south-west London, many of Khalife's friends came from well-off families and he felt ashamed of his relative poverty.

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

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