better-to-do

adjective

More well-to-do; better off.

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Meanings

adjective
  1. More well-to-do; better off.

    [T]he working classes are less able to do for themselves than the better-to-do people […]

    1883, The Coffee Public-House News, page 90
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APA

better-to-do. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/better-to-do

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“better-to-do.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/better-to-do. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “better-to-do,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/better-to-do.

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