age bracket
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3.1
- noun
- /eɪdʒ ˈbrækɪt/
- Specialized
:
rango de edad
- We appear to be in the same age bracket, so we chatted a good bit.
- 25-29 age bracket
- 29 year age bracket
There's a lot of fear amongst people in my age bracket about what might come, you know, for ourselves.
- There's a lot of fear amongst people in my age bracket about what might come, you know, for ourselves.
- Now seems like a good time to address some specific questions related to the age brackets that you mentioned earlier.
- Variable like age, yeah, in practice isn't more common sort of group them into certain age brackets and other variables are actually.
Examples
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Nearly all women in that age bracket are serious singles looking for somebody who wants a connection too.
Blog text (29) -
There's a lot of fear amongst people in my age bracket about what might come, you know, for ourselves.
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What is the age bracket for this cause?
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Now seems like a good time to address some specific questions related to the age brackets that you mentioned earlier.
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Um, on the form, they asked for our age bracket... and the age we wanted to meet.
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There will be 2 age brackets: Ages 15 and under, Ages 16+
Blog text (13) -
Between 1980 and 2015, the rates of increase in global childhood obesity were equal for boys and girls in all age brackets.
Academic text (2017) -
There were 85 over the age of 30; 66 in the 25-30 age bracket; and 59 less than 19 years old.
Academic text (2006) -
Hacker News has almost half of its users (44%) in the 18-24 age bracket.
Blog text (16) -
Currently, 23% of the 9.2 million people in this age bracket are in the labor force.
Synonyms
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2.2
People of about the same age that researchers study together for social or statistical reasons
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5.1
A group of people who share one quality, often the same age, and who researchers study
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4.1
A group of people of similar ages, for example children or older adults
How Wide
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a range of ages considered as a group' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'age' (years since birth) with 'bracket' (a range or grouping). This compositional pattern is common and cross-linguistically familiar, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should understand the MWE without prior exposure.
Etymology
Age bracket comes from the idea of a bracket as a simple mark or support that keeps things together. Imagine writing several ages inside a bracket on a form to show they belong to one group, so an age bracket means a range of ages treated as one group.