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词汇 well-heeled
释义 well heeled
adjective
 informaluk /ˌwel ˈhiːld/ us /ˌwel ˈhiːld/
rich: 生活优裕,富有
His family was very well heeled.他的家庭非常富有。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Rich and wealthy
advantaged
affluence
bankability
bazillionaire
be rolling in itidiom
comfortably
fat
filthy
get-rich-quick
Midas
not be short of a bob or twoidiom
prosperity
self-supporting
sit
solvent
super-rich
ultra-rich
wealthily
well endowed
well off
well heeled
noun[ plural ]
uk /ˌwel ˈhiːld/ us /ˌwel ˈhiːld/
 the well-heeled
rich people: 富人,有钱人
The shop attracted a loyal following among the well-heeled.这家商店吸引了一批有钱的忠实顾客。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Rich people
advantaged
baller
beautiful
champagne socialist
deb
elite
gilded
laird
magnate
millionairess
moneybags
multi-millionairess
preppy
scion
socialite
squattocracy
squillionaire
the beautiful peopleidiom
the jet set
yuppify

well-heeled | American Dictionary


well-heeled
adjective
us/ˈwelˈhild/
wealthy:
The village has become a summer retreat for well-heeled city dwellers.

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well heeled
Let us jointly make an appeal to them not to claim the maternity grant if they are wellheeled and do not need it.
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I would describe them as fairly wellheeled and the kind of people who would probably anyway pay for their dental and eye tests.
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Expenditure has often been weighted towards wellheeled and better-off authorities and the direction of funds has been jaundiced.
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Unemployment for some of them, wellheeled though they are, is deemed a virtue.
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It must have been known to the electors whether the candidates were wellheeled and whether they needed the money that would be paid to them.
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But even if one allows for that £1 million, with the surpluses they have got they are still very wellheeled.
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I wish that my constituency were as wellheeled as his is.
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Both groups are already wellheeled, but they have been awarded pay increases in excess of the total new annual salary proposed for nurses.
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However, it is also to be found among those who do not work but who are wellheeled.
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I notice that it is always the wellheeled who complain about that.
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All that went down the throats of the wellheeled.
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Going abroad was something for the very wellheeled.
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These powers have often been obtained through the promotion of private legislation by municipal authorities who were wellheeled, whereas poorer ones could not afford the expense.
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I am assured that such productions appeal not just to the wellheeled.
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They are asking those on pensions and low incomes to make sacrifices again, but they are not asking that of the wellheeled and well off in our society.
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