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better-to-do

better-to-do adjective: more well-to-do; better off.

Adjective

better-to-do

  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

Questions about better-to-do

What does better-to-do mean?
Better-to-do means more well-to-do; better off.
What part of speech is better-to-do?
Better-to-do is an adjective.

Words near better-to-do in the dictionary

  1. better-paid
  2. better-preserved
  3. better-read
  4. better-run
  5. better-timed
  6. better-to-do
  7. better-versed
  8. betterable
  9. bettered
  10. betterer
  11. bettererer

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