income bracket
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈɪn.kʌm ˈbræk.ɪt/
- The government adjusted tax rates for each income bracket to ensure fairness.
- lowest income bracket
- highest income bracket
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Watch on YouTubeWhich income bracket is most likely to use a coupon?
- Which income bracket is most likely to use a coupon?
- The study shows that very few get to stay in these high income brackets for their whole careers.
- I see it as being very prevalent again, across all these income brackets.
- All income brackets benefited substantially from Trump's tax reforms.
- And that explains why this year the brackets, income brackets changed.
- So, and most people, they're usually in the same income bracket where they grew up in.
- Not bad, but I'm down a lot from not for your income bracket, yeah, it's not good.
- I am my income bracket, I am my life story, I am my race, I am my culture.
Examples
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Which income bracket is most likely to use a coupon?
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You're in the upper five percent income bracket.
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And the people who use most of those are people in the higher income brackets.
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As Simon himself notes, he has been a member of several different income brackets in his ...
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The study shows that very few get to stay in these high income brackets for their whole careers.
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Well, if you dropped into a lower income bracket you could qualify for financial aid.
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I was never in a high income bracket; for most of my life, I ran a printing press.
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The key to moving from one income bracket to another can largely be attributed to attaining higher levels of education.
Academic text (2010) -
Seniors who are older and in the middle- and lower-income brackets have been the hardest hit.
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All income brackets benefited substantially from Trump's tax reforms.
Synonyms
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3.9
A group of people with similar income or age
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3.6
A range of income taxed at one rate
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4.0
A group that sets the tax rate people pay based on yearly earnings
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a category grouped by income' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'income' (money received) with 'bracket' (a range or class). This compositional noun-noun pattern is common cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Income bracket comes from the image of a bracket as marks or a small box that shows a range on a number scale, like a place where a number fits. So people are put into a money range by how much they 'earn', and the phrase means the group of people with similar income.