well fixed

1. Having a large amount of money at one's disposal; very wealthy. Sometimes hyphenated (and always before a noun). They must be pretty well fixed if they can afford multiple trips to Europe like that. You and your family will be well-fixed once you sign this deal.

2. Having enough of what one needs; in a good position. Sometimes hyphenated (and always before a noun). We're pretty well fixed for materials. We just need the manpower to assemble everything. Her campaign is well-fixed to win this election.

well-fixed

and well-heeled

1. mod. rich. His father died and left him pretty well-fixed.

2. and well-healed mod. alcohol intoxicated. You might say he is well-heeled. You might say he’s dead drunk, too.

See also:

References in periodicals archive

An algorithm for the surgical treatment of periprosthetic fractures of the femur around a well-fixed femoral component.

Periprosthetic femoral fractures around well-fixed implants: use of cortical onlay allografts with or without a plate.

TREATMENT OF PERIPROSTHETIC FEMORAL FRACTURES AFTER TOTAL HIP ARTHROPLASTY VANCOUVER TYPE B

The Langleys were 'high-toned, well-fixed Boston Brahmins'.

Books: Playing the flying game; First To Fly - The Unlikely Triumph of Wilbur and Orville Wright. By James Tobin (John Murray, pounds 25). Reviewed by Ross Reyburn

He tries to cut welfare in Texas, then at a lordly $188 a month, to get a tax cut for the already well-fixed. (In one instance, things are so awful that the poor must be saved by a temperate last-minute ploy by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison.) Bush doesn't seem to care, constantly trumping himself, spawning anecdotes of duplicity and opportunism that would ruin a pol elsewhere.

Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush

Since your median age is 55, perhaps you could draw inspiration from Princeton Project 55, instigated by Ralph Nader to revive civic concern among well-fixed alumni of a similar age.

Time to pay the dividend

The well-fixed femoral stem was left in situ using a titanium sleeve on the trunnion with a new ceramic head (KT plate 480010, standard socket liner 44 mm, and alumina ball 28 mm with standard offset; Kyocera, Kyoto, Japan).

reported implantation of standard ceramic heads onto well-fixed stems in 61 cases of revision surgery with no ceramic head fractures after 7 years of follow-up [10].

Metallosis after Exchange of the Femoral Head and Liner following Ceramic Acetabular Liner Dissociation in Total Hip Arthroplasty with a Modular Layered Acetabular Component

In the process of removal of a well-fixed stem, the humerus may sustain significant damage.

Revision of humeral components in shoulder arthroplasty