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The fallacy of monetary policy in the U.S. is to believe this money will go to the man on the street. It won't. It goes to the Mayfair economy of the well-to-do people and boosts asset prices of Warhols... Very happy. Very good for the Fed. Congratulations, Mr. Bernanke.
Marc Faber

Meaning of "well-to-do" in the English dictionary

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WELL-TO-DO

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Well-To-Do is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES WELL-TO-DO MEAN IN ENGLISH?

well-to-do

Wealth

Wealth is the abundance of valuable resources or material possessions. This excludes the core meaning as held in the originating old English word weal, which is from an Indo-European word stem. In this larger understanding of wealth, an individual, community, region or country that possesses an abundance of such possessions or resources to the benefit of the common good is known as wealthy. The modern concept of wealth is of significance in all areas of economics, and clearly so for growth economics and development economics yet the meaning of wealth is context-dependent. At the most general level, economists may define wealth as "anything of value" that captures both the subjective nature of the idea and the idea that it is not a fixed or static concept. Various definitions and concepts of wealth have been asserted by various individuals and in different contexts. Defining wealth can be a normative process with various ethical implications, since often wealth maximization is seen as a goal or is thought to be a normative principle of its own.

Definition of well-to-do in the English dictionary

The definition of well-to-do in the dictionary is moderately wealthy.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WELL-TO-DO

well-stocked
well-suited
well-supplied
well-supported
well-taught
well-tempered
well-thought-of
well-thought-out
well-thumbed
well-timed
well-trained
well-travelled
well-treated
well-tried
well-trodden
well-turned
well-understood
well-upholstered
well-used
well-versed

WORDS THAT END LIKE WELL-TO-DO

can-do
Colorado
condo
dado
derring-do
dildo
do
do-si-do
how do
how do you do
how-do-you-do
how-d´ye-do
Leonardo
libido
mondo
Orlando
perdendo
privado
to-do
up-do

Synonyms and antonyms of well-to-do in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «WELL-TO-DO»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «well-to-do» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of well-to-do

Translation of «well-to-do» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WELL-TO-DO

Find out the translation of well-to-do to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of well-to-do from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «well-to-do» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

富裕的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

acomodado
570 millions of speakers

English

well-to-do
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अच्छी तरह से करने के लिए करते
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

جيدا ل دو
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

хорошо обеспеченных
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

abastado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সচ্ছল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

aisé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Baik untuk dilakukan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

wohlhabend
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

裕福な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

부유한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Apik-kanggo-apa
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

công việc tốt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நன்கு செய்ய
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

घरोघरचे कार्य
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tuzu kuru
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

benestante
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dobrze sytuowany
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

добре забезпечених
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

well-to- do
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

καλά - to- do
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

goed to-do
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

väl att göra-
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

godt to-do
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of well-to-do

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WELL-TO-DO»

The term «well-to-do» is very widely used and occupies the 5.591 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WELL-TO-DO» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about well-to-do

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8 QUOTES WITH «WELL-TO-DO»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word well-to-do.
1
Tom Coburn
The problem that faces our country today, the last 30 years we have lived off the future, and the bill is coming due. So there cannot be anything that is not put on the table. There will not be one American that will not be called to sacrifice. Those that are more well-to-do will be called to sacrifice to a greater extent.
2
Herbert Croly
The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest.
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Marc Faber
The fallacy of monetary policy in the U.S. is to believe this money will go to the man on the street. It won't. It goes to the Mayfair economy of the well-to-do people and boosts asset prices of Warhols... Very happy. Very good for the Fed. Congratulations, Mr. Bernanke.
4
Marc Faber
When you print money, the money does not flow evenly into the economic system. It stays essentially in the financial service industry and among people that have access to these funds, mostly well-to-do people. It does not go to the worker.
5
Richard Jefferies
Many labourers can trace their descent from farmers or well-to-do people, and it is not uncommon to find here and there a man who believes that he is entitled to a large property in Chancery, or elsewhere, as the heir.
6
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
What really got me focused on cancer was when my best friend was diagnosed with breast cancer, and even though she was a well-to-do person, I found that her treatment costs were crippling.
7
Jackson Pollock
Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.
8
Mao Zedong
There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WELL-TO-DO»

Discover the use of well-to-do in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to well-to-do and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Policies, Institutions and the Dark Side of Economics
poor and consume Rdx. The poor, since they do not make charitable contributions, consume d0O from their own income and the income transfer dx d0 from the well-to-do. What would happen if the government attempted to redistribute income ...
Vito Tanzi, 2000
2
The Politics of Agricultural Cooperativization in China: ...
As a result the well-to-do and the relatively well-to-do peasants dominated the backbone [posts] of some cooperatives. More seriously, in some rural areas the poor peasants did not dominate the backbone [posts] of the party branches ...
Frederick C. Teiwes, Warren Sun, 1993
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Peasants in the Making: Malaysia's Green Revolution
The average farm size operated by the poor households amounted to 1.96 re, as compared to 4.58 re for the middle households and 10.6 re for the well-to-do households. However, farm size alone would have been a misleading criterion.
Diana Wong, 1987
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The Great Gatsby
A social satire and a milestone in 20th century literature, 'The Great Gatsby' peels away the layers of the glamorous twenties in the U.S. to display the coldness and cruelty at its heart.
F.Scott Fitzgerald, 2012
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Concealed Tenency and its implicat
poor cultivators through the instrument of tenancy. On the other hand the tenancy dependence of the well-to-do cultivators on the poor cultivators is only 1.4 per cent in terms of units and 3.3 per cent in terms of leased area. Some of the poorer  ...
‎1977
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Walking Between the Raindrops
We would do well to do as the eagles dare Greeting every storm with hope; Always singing the song that free hearts sing - “Never give-up what is yours!” We would do well to do as the eagles dare Doing what others cannot do; With eyes of  ...
Diana N. Pappas, 2011
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A Handbook of Marxism
gulf lies between the slogan " enrich yourselves " and the slogan " make the collective farmers well-to-do." In the first place only individual persons or groups can enrich themselves, whereas the slogan concerning a well-to-do existence affects, ...
Emile BURNS, 1935
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Inside the mind of winners: learn how the well to do, do ...
inside the mind of winners shows you what the well to do do and how they do it.
Various, 2013
9
Politics of Aristotle: With an Introduction, Two Prefatory ...
1295 b 38, irpoarideiJLevov yhp (to fieo-ov) iroiei poirriv Kal KOikvei yivevdai rets kvavrlas vitepPoXdi, that the poor are conceived by Aristotle to possess considerable power in a polity and to play an active part, the moderately well-to- do class ...
W. L. Newman, 2010
10
The Unconscious Mummers
The poor supernumerary is rich in hope, and needs a berth; the well-to-do supernumerary is poor in spirit, and has need of nothing. No well-to-do family is so simple as to put a man of brains into the administration. The well-to-do ...
Honore De Balzac, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WELL-TO-DO»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term well-to-do is used in the context of the following news items.
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Migos' 'YRN: Tha Album' Cover Is Really Well-To-Do
Would you expect anything less in an album cover from Migos? The Atlanta trio gets animated and dipped in gold, looking like little, aggressive Oscar statues ... «UPROXX, May 15»
2
Scott County homebuilding explodes as well-to-do buyers slip …
Houses being built in the Rocky Creek Farm subdivision as seen from Paris Pike (U.S. 460) in Georgetown. Homes are in big demand and lots of homes are ... «Lexington Herald Leader, May 15»
3
Opinion: Well-to-do Australians leaning on unbalanced tax …
TREASURER Joe Hockey's infamously divisive phrase that effectively framed the thinking behind last year's less-than-successful federal Budget was “lifters and ... «Courier Mail, May 15»
4
Private Equity Courts The Well-to-Do
Blackstone Group, the giant private-equity fund manager, is increasingly targeting wealthy individuals to invest in its offerings. Big institutional investors still ... «Barron's, Apr 15»
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Real love: When a well-to-do engineer married a disfigured acid …
Real love: When a well-to-do engineer married a disfigured acid attack survivor ... A well-to-do electrical engineer Chittaranjan Tiwari fell in love with a disfigured ... «indiatvnews.com, Apr 15»
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Has giveitup, Says Pradhan to Well-to-do LPG Subsidy Holders
BENGALURU:Of the close to three lakh people, who have given up subsidy on LPG following Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call, nearly 15,000 are from ... «The New Indian Express, Apr 15»
7
Amid extreme hunger in countryside, North Korea's well-to-do feast …
French-trained chefs are cooking up a storm in Pyongyang where North Korea's privileged classes are devouring their baguettes, a pro-North newspaper ... «InterAksyon, Mar 15»
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North Korea's well-to-do feast on French baguettes
SEOUL (Reuters) - French-trained chefs are cooking up a storm in Pyongyang where North Korea's privileged classes are devouring their baguettes, a pro-North ... «Yahoo! Maktoob News, Mar 15»
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Omega Announces New Ceramic Speedmasters For Well-To-Do
When it comes to cool new materials, Apple has nothing on watchmakers. First announced in 2013, Omega has expanded its “Dark Side Of The Moon” line with ... «TechCrunch, Mar 15»
10
OTR's well-to-do don't want poor to stay
Regarding "Republic Street: A Grand Experiment in Over-the-Rhine" (March 8): It seems that your idea of an experiment began with the shooting death of ... «Cincinnati.com, Mar 15»

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