to take home
29
3.0
- phrasal verb
- /teɪk hoʊm/
:
llevarse a casa
- What I actually get to take home with me is about $302 every week.
Examples
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Additionally, Florida's typical worker is taking home about $1,000 less on average today than in 2010.
Blog text (11) -
Lehman Brothers was a top underwriter of subprime lending, and their CEO, Richard Fuld, took home $485 million.
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But I take home a whole lot less.
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I think it's a lot easier when your income, how much you take home is controlled by what you spend.
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But I'd still be taking home less than I did last year.
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The top 1 percent of earners take home a quarter of the income in this country.
Blog text (14) -
Thus, a worker earning annual wages of $30,000 would take home an additional $700 per year.
Academic text (1992) -
I take home about 700 bucks a week, and I pay alimony so the idea that I got $29,000 in the bank is pretty hysterical.
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On $7.30 an hour, in a good week she takes home just over $200.
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Palma earns $8 an hour and takes home about $400 every two weeks.
Synonyms
38
3.3
To earn money regularly for your family
25
4.9
Earn money from work or sales
9
4.4
To earn money to support your family
How Much
Surface Forms
Morphology
The combination 'take' + 'home' evokes the concrete idea of bringing something back to one's home, so learners can plausibly infer it concerns money one brings home from work (i.e., earnings). However, the precise technical sense of net salary after taxes/deductions is a specialized extension not fully predictable from the literal constituents, so the expression is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Take home comes from the simple picture of a worker carrying pay back to their house. To take something home meant to bring it home, so today take home means 'the amount of money you actually get after taxes and deductions'.