well-to-do parents
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well-to-do
adjective
uk/ˌwel.təˈduː/us/ˌwel.təˈduː/
rich:
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parent
noun[C]
uk/ˈpeə.rənt/us/ˈper.ənt/
a mother or father of a person or an animal, or someone who looks after a person in the same way that a ...
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Thewell-to-doparentsends his children to a boarding school, and sees very little of them except during the holidays.
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If the well-to-do parents can take themselves out of this scheme, why not let them do so?
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I find it quite unacceptable that a student who has quarrelled with his comparatively well-to-do parents should therefore be denied a university education.
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It is not the system which well-to-do parents adopt.
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The little girl was at a boarding school for the children of rather well-to-do parents, and she suddenly took to stealing.
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The big difference was that those places could, in those new circumstances, be made available only to children of well-to-do parents.
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To spend £2 million indiscriminately for parents, including well-to-do parents, in this way is something we should not consider.
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Does not the most effective way to get into a nursery school appear to be either to have problem parents or very well-to-do parents?
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If more of these boys came of well-to-do parents we should probably find this change taking place before long, because these parents would protest very vigorously and very properly.
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It is true that the majority of well-to-do parents send their children to boarding schools because they think that the best kind of education is available there.
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It is not in any sense an attempt to give extra grants to the children of well-to-do parents because they send their children to this country for their education.
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It is now common for the educated and the well-to-do parents to perform the marriages of their children in the formal way.
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Almost all well-to-do parents send their kids to at least one school of art.
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