Definition of "well-off" []

• Well-to-do. (adjective)
• In fortunate circumstances. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Things escalated from there with the super-rich guy calling the well-off dad an "asshole" for not being more careful in the playground."
• "Among the chief suspects are technological changes that increased the value of higher education; globalization that exposed the working class to low-wage competition from abroad; changes in public policy that gave tax breaks to the well-off, undermined minimum wage laws, and discouraged unions; and the fading of social norms that had in the aftermath of the Great Depression and World War II restrained upper-class avarice."
• "Instead this relative handful of well-off people has delivered a political opportunity for Labour politicians brave enough to take it."