well-off

Used with adjective complement

• become: When more than 1.25 billion people become well-off, the demand on everything will be enormous.

Modifies a noun

• background: Most of the schools surveyed were in areas where children came from well-off family backgrounds.
• family: He comes from a well-off family from the north of Spain.
• household: Other factors were involved in the growth since 1991: Relatively well-off households seeking more individuality from their homes entered the self-build market.
• parent: Less well-off parents will be able to claim part or all of the fees at certain schools from a special government fund.
• society: We do not have the right to deny less well-off societies the benefits of biotechnology.
• student: The least well-off students in Wales may receive extra support from the ALG.

Modifying Another Word

• relatively: Many relatively well-off families might think they aren't entitled to credits on top of child benefit.
• reasonably: Mr. and Mrs. Miniver are the average reasonably well-off middle-class couple with a son at Oxford, a small daughter and younger son.
• very: Despite the hype, property investment would have only been possible for a handful of very well-off savers.
• quite: Law " was bright and cheery, with the main characters quite well-off.
• comparatively: Even comparatively well-off people in what would now be thought of as professional jobs were often very inadequately paid.
• financially: Many financially well-off people do go to the opera.

Preposition: in

• society: Public funding is intended to help the least well-off in society with the costs of their legal advice.
• area: The well-off in the area took up playing golf.