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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Informal Financially secure; well-to-do.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Reasonably financially secure.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich

Examples

  • “Conservative spokesmen never tire of saying that a bigger take for the well-fixed son in the family will result in economic miracles for all the members--the famous trickle-down theory.”

    The Huffington Post: Jack Rothman: Debunking the Family Budget Analogy

  • “This home, a crumbling concrete and rusting steel bunker, was a stone's throw from the Pemex gas station operated by his well-fixed brother Roberto.”

    Beautifully Arranged

  • “With this weekend's Food & Wine Classic, the Aspen Music Festival & School less than two weeks from the start of its summer-long schedule, the Jazz Aspen June Festival revving its engine and the Aspen Ideas Festival just around the corner, the invasion of shiny laminates hanging on well-heeled, well-fixed necks all around town is in high gear.”

    The Huffington Post: Meredith C. Carroll: Aspen's Status Symbol du Jour: Plastic

  • “A wartime product created for the benefit of the American soldiers swarming to a long exile at the four corners of the world, the pin-up girl soon became an industrial product, subject to well-fixed norms and as stable in quality as peanut butter or chewing gum.”

    Entomology of the Pin-Up Girl « Jahsonic

  • “The two meet again when Irene has snared another deep-pocketed gent at a tony hotel, and Jean, reaping the benefits of another misapprehension, is in residence as the boy toy of a well-fixed and well-preserved widow.”

    The Wall Street Journal: 'Stop-Loss' Lets Clichés

  • “Mario was very concerned to make money because he was getting older and he really wanted to leave his kids well-fixed," Coppola stated.”

    Francis Ford Coppola Reflects On Missing ‘Godfather IV,’ Goes B&W For ‘Tetro’ » MTV Movies Blog

  • “I would imagine the guy's pretty well-fixed and won't suffer much.”

    Peace, order and good government, eh?: March 2004 Archives

  • “Still, looking on the bright side, at least I am well-fixed for incontinence diapers.”

    I'm A Stranger Here Myself

  • “In a sense, we were -- well-fixed to deal with catastrophes of this sort in the sense that my parents lived fairly nearby on Long”

    Drawing Life: Surviving the Unabomber

  • “Wherefore, if we desire to follow God with constancy, it behaves us carefully to meditate on all the inconveniences, all the difficulties, all the dangers which await us; that not only a hasty zeal may produce fading flowers, but that from a deep and well-fixed root of piety, we may bring forth fruit in our whole life.”

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1

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