How to pronounce well-heeled

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What well-heeled means

adjective

Rich, with plenty of money to spend

In a sentence: Well-heeled visitors stayed in the fanciest hotel by the lake.

Where it comes from: It began in American English. It first meant well equipped, and later came to mean well supplied with money.

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