well-housedadj.

1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Job xcviii. 462/1 There is nothing but triumphing with him, he is well housed, he hath monie in his purse.

1640 D. Featley et al. Θρηνοικος (new ed.) xlii. 837 Tell mee, who is noble, and who base and ignoble, the wormes claime kindred of all: tell mee, who is well housed, and who ill.

1749 A. Hill Gideon (rev. ed.) iii. 128 The Senate..watch'd th'unsure Event. As Men well-hous'd, in wintry Storms of Rain, Hear, from without, the show'ry Tempest rise.

1833 Niles' Weekly Reg. 17 Aug. 410/2 I look at his fine plantation, his well housed and happy negroes, his flourishing fields of grain, his flocks of sheep.

1854 J. R. McCulloch Descr. & Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire (ed. 4) I. ii. 445 A well-fed, well-clothed, and well-housed population.

1927 H. R. Marraro Nationalism in Ital. Educ. iii. 61 The secondary schools are not, in many cases, well-housed.

2004 W. H. Mott Globalization iv. 111 Corporate directors accepted and implemented the premise that well-housed, well-educated, healthy workers would be more productive than ill, angry, feckless people living in slums.