| 单词 | income bracket |
| 释义 | > as lemmasincome bracket c. A group bracketed together as of equal standing in some graded system, as income bracket: a class of persons grouped according to income. Π 1880 Macmillan's Mag. Apr. 477 Sedgwick was in the first bracket. 1932 N.Y. Times 1 May iii. 1/3 The most striking fact in vital statistics is the increase in the upper-age brackets. 1940 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 44 506 The general bracket of utilisation within which the aeroplanes will fall. 1940 F. S. Fitzgerald Let. 18 Mar. (1964) 66 Competent people with a little pull have no trouble finding places in the same income brackets. 1943 Gen 2 Jan. 29/1 Once he got in the upper brackets, fistically speaking. 1952 News Chron. 15 July 6/8 ‘At my age,’ he [sc. an athlete] added, ‘I have only two years left in the top bracket.’ 1956 ‘M. Innes’ Appleby plays Chicken v. 43 They were both from the same social bracket. income bracket income bracket n. ΚΠ 1940 F. S. Fitzgerald Let. 18 Mar. (1964) 66 Competent people with a little pull have no trouble finding places in the same income brackets. 1947 Partisan Rev. 14 482 The hard core of the stratum that lives off ideas..are the graduates of the fashionable Eastern colleges whose social origin is in the upper income-bracket groups. 1969 Times 30 Sept. 11/8 Good citizenship is not decided by income brackets. 1972 Listener 6 Apr. 467/1 A poor cabbie loses his girl because her family don't like his income bracket. < as lemmas |
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