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income bracket

income bracket

8 3.5
A group of people who earn about the same amount of money for tax or benefit rules
  • noun
  • /ˈɪn.kʌm ˈbræk.ɪt/
translation icon : tramo de ingresos
  • The government adjusted tax rates for each income bracket to ensure fairness.
  • lowest income bracket
  • highest income bracket

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Examples

  • Which income bracket is most likely to use a coupon?

  • You're in the upper five percent income bracket.

  • 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.

  • Well, if you dropped into a lower income bracket you could qualify for financial aid.

  • 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

bracket
vsincome bracket
56 3.9

A group of people with similar income or age

groups people by income ranges especially for use in tax decisions
tax bracket
vsincome bracket
  • Specialized
15 3.6

A range of income taxed at one rate

groups people by income ranges for classification rather than rate focus
income tax bracket
vsincome bracket
1 4.0

A group that sets the tax rate people pay based on yearly earnings

groups people by income ranges rather than naming the exact rate

How Much

income bracket
8 3.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

income + bracket

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.