How To Use Well-off In A Sentence
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This helps the less well-off who spend a greater share of their income on products such as clothes; it hits the better-off, who spend more on services.
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Whether a place is poor or well-off depends not on the size of the town government building.
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Mr Crowe said many of the customers who were undercharged were less well-off and were already struggling to pay for their electricity using the pre-paid card system.
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The lower bands would cut tax for the less well-off, but the new higher bands would entrap many middle-class households, simply because house price inflation has increased the value of their homes.
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Yet now, apparently, these well-off travellers are turning their nose up at cocktails beside kidney-shaped pools in tropical climes, and heading for… Blackpool.
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The effect has been to encourage the well-off to take out plans for children as a tax dodge.
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Mostly, it was a medium for the well-off to talk among themselves.
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We looked like street urchins, despite being quite well-off.
Times, Sunday Times
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As the rich tend to spend more than the less well-off on non-essentials, the rich would pay more in local sales tax.
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To well-off businessmen, the lighting of firecrackers and fireworks, to this day, symbolizes their expectation of wealth for the coming year.
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These are not economically well-off, but slightly higher than the status of the civilian population in the community of scholars known as the "poor scholar.
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The price of premium gasoline - the fuel used by private car owners and thus the well-off - should be increased the most, followed by industrial diesel oil.
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Still, in provincial garrison towns they cut something of a figure and many officers could find wives from well-off families.
A Social History of Modern Spain
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At the time she was given her showbiz nickname she was relatively well-off; now she is simply rich.
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History suggests several steady, reliable ways to become well-off or even wealthy.
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We're well-off for public transport here.
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As the rich tend to spend more than the less well-off on non-essentials, the rich would pay more in local sales tax.
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Travers was born in 1909, the daughter of an austere, stiff, unloving but clearly well-off family who, for the sake of her father's rheumatism, moved to Cannes on the French Riviera when she was 12.
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The clientele includes well-off families, thirtysomething couples and older couples.
Times, Sunday Times
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Between 2000 and 2015, well-educated, well-off Californians had more to bring them together than to divide them.
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The real issue here, the one that nobody wants to discuss, is not “well-off” people.
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Many pensioners are less well-off than they used to be.
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So in addition to providing the market with some grain farmers, the food grain market by the "rich peasant", "large" and the well-off tenants to provide.
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Currently to persist and improve the autonomous system for national areas has great meaning to fully build well-off society and create socialistic harmonious society.
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Very well: the "light" is more and more withdrawn; and for some time you have a general dusk, very favorable for catching mice; and the opulent owlery is very "happy," and well-off at its banker's; -- and furthermore, by due sequence, infallible as the foundations of the Universe and Nature's oldest law, the light _returns_ on you, condensed, this time, into _lightning_, which there is not any skin whatever too thick for taking in!
Latter-Day Pamphlets
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It was the time when many of the urban élite would return from visits to Paris with the latest fashions while the less well-off sported convincing knock-offs.
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He's so well-off he can apparently afford to just hand off $50.00 to randoms on the street.
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If you want have well-off families, you have to have a wealth-creating economy in place.
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Similarly, when 18th century society was gripped by the snuff craze, valuable gold snuffboxes were an important way for the very wealthy to publicly demonstrate that they were not only highly fashionable, but also incredibly well-off.
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The result also reveals that kids from more well-off families tend to spend their money lavishly while those whose parents are unemployed are more thrifty.
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White children from well-off homes were the top-performing ethnic group at the age of 11, while white pupils eligible for free school meals had among the worst test results.
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There is a thriving leisure class, which has given way to a class of well-off entertainers - dancers, acrobats, singers and other such performers in addition to the usual street variety.
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Many pensioners are less well-off than they used to be.
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Economic and agency theory also predict that unions will encourage strikes despite the relatively well-off positions of their members.
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Turn back the clocks a few months and we were worrying about traffic congestion, or calculating how to make a fast buck at the expense of well-off southern toffs.
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Her parents were well-off, and Kate did attend Bryn Mawr, but dinner-table conversations in the Hepburn household did not re-volve around teas and tennis but, rather, feminism, Marxism, Fabian - ism, even nudism.
Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: Shirley Temple and H.L. Mencken Hit Upton Sinclair
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The poorest and most disenfranchised members of the community may have different perspectives than the well-off, who exist even in urban slums.
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Schools say they fundraise for the less well-off.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most of the illness sections are from rich countries; the less well-off seem keener to film small pleasures.
Times, Sunday Times
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To attract well-off and wealthy customers, the company will need to offer better than average rates.
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The regulator said that it planned to keep a price cap only on the cost of second-class mail to keep stamps affordable for the less well-off.
Times, Sunday Times
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The clientele includes well-off families, thirtysomething couples and older couples.
Times, Sunday Times
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We do see, for example, in the materially less well-off a rampant hopelessness and the social effects that come along with it.
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However, the bosses will prosper with fat cash pay-offs and sweet share deals that will see them comfortably well-off well into dotage.
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These are not economically well-off, but slightly higher than the status of the civilian population in the community of scholars known as the "poor scholar.
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It includes both well-off material life and colorful life in culture and is based on highly-developed productive forces.
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During the 19th cent. increasing supplies of cheap imported sugar enabled preserves and conserves to move from the pantries of the well-off to a much wider public.
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There was a half-brother, too, a bad egg who was nevertheless well-off because of his father's fortunes.
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Put more concretely, a voucher system would make the educationally well-off better off, would make the poorly-off worse off, would Balkanize society, and would create an educational under-class.
Teacher Pay, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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They are less likely than the well-off to be connected to mains water supplies and pay on average 12 times more per litre.
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There must be action and succor from the well-off parts of the world for the poorer sections, just as one part of our country would rally to the aid of another section in time of national disaster, such as, say, some great flood or an earthquake.
The Puzzling Years Ahead
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In the capital of Ghana well-off families often bury their members in coffins shaped like objects important to the deceased — an onion for a farmer, a sword for a tribal leader, a Mercedes Benz for a successful businessman.
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Of course, being well-off does not necessarily breed egoism.
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Her father, Leonard, who made and lost three fortunes on the New York Stock Exchange, was well-off at the time of her marriage, but no longer wealthy.
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The people who have trouble finding part time work are well-off women like me, in desireable careers, who want to keep their hand in while devoting themselves to raising their children.
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She was what they called a ` do-gooder " and she had with her a list of posts in the homes of well-off Italian families.
THE GOLDEN LION
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Is there anything in what you saw of Agnes Ferman that would have led you to believe she was fairly well-off ?
BREACH OF DUTY
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Either a mechanism has to be found to allow a two-speed Europe where the countries of the periphery are not hobbled by an exchange rate that is totally inappropriate for their economic wellbeing, or the eurozone must consider political union where the more prosperous areas routinely help the less well-off.
We need strong leaders in the eurozone | Editorial
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The researchers found more wealthy residents in one city knew and completely trusted their neighbours than was the case in well-off parts of another city.
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'That's a bit unkind,' said Pat 'After all, Sadie's kind and generous and we all like to be friends with her because of those things, not because she's well-off And Pam was a nice little thing, though she's such a swotter j m not friends with her because I want to pick her brains but because there's something rather nice about her, in spite of her head always being inside a book' 'Well, stick up for Prudence if you like,' said Janet I think she's a humbug I can't stick her goody-goody ways Can you, Bobby? '
Summer Term At St Clare's
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Only relatively well-off societies can afford to be blasé about wealth.
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Widespread bitterness and resentment can occur where most people are well-off, if a portion of the population is excessively wealthier.
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According to the most recent American Freshman survey, conducted annually by the University of California, Los Angeles, undergraduates' chief objective in life is to be financially well-off.
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Still, in provincial garrison towns they cut something of a figure and many officers could find wives from well-off families.
A Social History of Modern Spain
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Our sense of what it is to be reasonably well-off keeps changing, the threshold keeps rising-even though all of us are much better off than people were hundreds of years ago.
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The distinction between the deserving and the undeserving poor is a luxury of the comfortably well-off.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a resort that clearly caters for the well-off.
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Instead, they say, it has actually increased the gap between rich and poor countries and between well-off and indigent inhabitants within countries.
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Sir Michael Wilshaw Ofsted chief inspector Sir Michael was speaking ahead of a Downing Street summit on so-called "coasting" schools - where performance, often in well-off areas, is not necessarily inadequate but has failed to impress.
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She works as a charlady for well-off, upper-middle-class women, and she lives a fairly austere, but comfortable, life with her husband, Stan, a mechanic in his brother's garage, and their grown-up children, Sid and Ethel.
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She argued that students from lower income families would get grants and bursaries and, in effect, money from well-off students would be directed to help them.
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She was what they called a ` do-gooder " and she had with her a list of posts in the homes of well-off Italian families.
THE GOLDEN LION
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‘The studies show there's as much drug use in well-off areas as in poor neighbourhoods,’ he says.
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All the money goes to charity and what is not used to help out the less well-off at Christmas is distributed to Waterford charities, so all the money stays locally.
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Amongst the crowd, whether on or off horses, the old fashioned accents of the gentry were mingled with the softer burr of the yeoman farmers and the downright rusticity of the less well-off.
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Currently, the top tax bracket begins at $373,000 in annual income and fails to distinguish the merely "well-off," from the "super-duper rich.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky: Fairness in Taxation
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Less well-off parents would end up sending their children to nearby underfunded public schools.
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Less well-off families find it as much of a necessity as wealthy ones, and fuel duties have raised the overall tax burden on poorer families.
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On tax, he said: ‘We are relatively well-off, but we fail to share our wealth equitably.’
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The less well-off pensioners are finding it hard to survive on what they get.
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Does donating a slightly bobbly woollen jumper insult those less well-off?
Times, Sunday Times
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doesn't know when he's well-off
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Her husband, who had died three years previously, had left her well-off.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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The less well-off pensioners are finding it hard to survive on what they get.
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They are well-off, living in a chic open-concept loft in Vancouver.
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Both the wealthy and the moderately well-off use these trusts to minimise the amount of tax their estate will pay.
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So we're paying already well-off public employees to entertain each other royally as they discuss how to spend vast sums of our money.
The Sun
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The resort, 1,500m above sea level, with a lake and exquisite views of the snowy mountains, has been a center for invalids and well-off hypochondriacs since the 1860s.
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The final conclusion was that people who live in well-off places usually feel superior and look down upon people who live in relatively undeveloped regions.
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Affluence also creates an ever-growing class of well-off consumers, many of whom seek to emulate the crudities of consumption of the elites.
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Mud and wattle or sun-dried bricks are used in house building in rural areas; well-off families may use concrete blocks.
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When this young woman walks down the street, well-off men, very normal men, in their 50s, stop and make fun of her, saying 'Bunga, bunga,' a term reportedly describing sexually charged dancing at Berlusconi's villa.
Berlusconi Sex Trial Adjourned Shortly After Beginning (VIDEO)
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Her parents were well-off, and Kate did attend Bryn Mawr, but dinner-table conversations in the Hepburn household did not re-volve around teas and tennis but, rather, feminism, Marxism, Fabian - ism, even nudism.
Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: Shirley Temple and H.L. Mencken Hit Upton Sinclair
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All the money goes to charity and what is not used to help out the less well-off at Christmas is distributed to Waterford charities, so all the money stays local.
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With your dividends, and perks, you'll be extremely well-off.
SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
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The problem with this kind of lop-sided reservation is that the real beneficiaries of reservation may be the economically well-off among the "backward community" members who generation after generation reap the benefits at the expense of those who are poor and illiterate.
Analysis
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We’ve been too well-off for too long, so unless Obama comes up with a memory-killing drug to put in the water supply, he’ll be lucky if he’s allowed to sit out the rest of his term sucking his thumb in the Oval Office, while the governors and legislators like Rep. Ryan take the lead.
The joke that is the CBO
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What is happening to our country when well-off landowners can be allowed to treat those less fortunate as pawns in some commercial game?
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He is being urged to reform inheritance tax so that less well-off people would be taxed less.
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It is hoped that the cashless system will save less well-off students from embarrassment and lead to greater equality among classmates.
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The clientele includes well-off families, thirtysomething couples and older couples.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ultimately, taxation is the only fair and secure way to mobilise the wealth of the well-off for the benefit of the disadvantaged.
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It advocates decentralisation, economic reforms, additional support for the less well-off and a return to the pacifism spelled out in the constitution.
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This article is to argue that the green GDP guideline system and the circulative economy model are necessary choices in constructing well-off society in China.
