take-homeadj.n.
/ˈteɪkhəʊm/, U.S. /ˈteɪkˌ(h)oʊm/ Originally U.S.
A. adj.
1. Designating the remainder of a person's earnings after the deduction of tax, insurance, etc. Chiefly in take-home pay.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > [noun] > personal income or acquired wealth > derived from work or office > after deductions
take-home1942
take-home pay1942
1942 N.Y. Times 6 Aug. 15/1 The average weekly ‘take home’ pay was $46.25 for men and $30.72 for women.
1951 Manch. Guardian Weekly 8 Feb. 15/4 It used to be that trainmen were classed first or second in take-home pay.
1968 Jrnl. Marriage & Family 30 318/1 A family of four is eligible if the annual take-home income is less than $3,900 a year.
1977 R.A.F. News 11 May 1/3 Between £1.68 and £5.29 a week is added to the take-home pay of married men with two children.
1982 F. Ackerman Reaganomics iii. 47 There is no reason to think higher take-home wages will cause higher employment.
1993 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 11 Oct. a7/5 The crimp on take-home pay has been even tighter because Ottawa and the provinces raised taxes over that period.
2.
a. Designed or intended to be taken away for use or consumption at home; relating to such use or consumption.
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1946 Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Indiana) 14 Mar. 6/2 They planned to discontinue take-home sales, selling only bottled beer over the bar.
1973 Times 15 Mar. 23/6 Licenses should be granted to ‘any retailer whose character and premises satisfy certain minimum standards’, at least as far as the take-home trade is concerned.
1991 M. Mackie Gender Relations Canada viii. 222/1 Families are buying daycare services, take-home and restaurant food, etc.
1996 F. Popcorn & L. Marigold Clicking ii. 291 Providing customers with a take-home computer printout of medication information.
b. North American. Education. Designating an examination or test which is intended to be completed without supervision outside of class time.
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society > education > educational administration > examination > [adjective] > type of examination
multiple-choice1914
pass-fail1930
multi-choice1950
open book1951
take-home1956
mock1960
1956 School Rev. 64 355/2 Such devices as take-home tests, term papers, or individual or group reports may help the teacher know each student better and also help the students learn.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 28 Aug. 6/3 A total of 823 cadets took the take-home exam.., and many cadets, their attorneys, and others suspect that as many as half the class collaborated.
2012 N.Y. Mag. 24 Sept. 38/1 The test was a take-home exam. It was also open-book and open-Internet, meaning that students were allowed to research their answers in any manner they saw fit.
3. Designating a key fact, point, or idea to be remembered, typically one emerging from a discussion or meeting; = takeaway adj. 3.
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1968 J. D. Watson Double Helix xvi. 111 Though the theoretical basis for many of their conclusions was shaky, the take-home lesson was obvious.
1974 N.Y. Times 28 Sept. 59 The take-home message of the program was that the rape was a homosexual one.
1981 Financial Times 19 June (Survey) p. ii The take-home lesson for AES was that it must simplify its sales pitch.
2002 Chicago Tribune 13 Jan. xiii. 3/4 The take-home pearl that the spinal cord injury community is eager to disseminate.
2006 Indianapolis Star 13 Aug. (State ed.) a22/3 The take-home, public-health message is this.
B. n.
1. = take-home pay at sense A. 1.
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1944 Extension of Emergency Price Control Act 1942: Hearings before U.S. Senate Comm. on Banking & Currency (78th Congr., 2nd Sess.) 723 A lot of people have a very exaggerated notion about what these take-homes are.
1967 Wisconsin State Jrnl. 4 Jan. ii. 6/3 My daughter made a fuss about the $10 a week room and board my wife and I charged her, out of a take home of $50 per week.
1997 Condé Nast Traveler Mar. 71/3 Holland America says that when customers receive rate adjustments, their agents' take-home remains the same.
2009 N.Y. Mag. 23 Nov. 45/2 ‘I'm worried about money now,’ says Danny, whose take-home barely covers mortgage payments.
2.
a. Something designed or intended to be taken away for use, consumption, or enjoyment at home.
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1951 Rep. 47th Ann. Convent. Internat. Assoc. Ice Cream Manufacturers IV. 50 We have had very poor luck with take-homes. We tried the ice cream bar which we figured would be the best for our patrons, and we had the envelope to stop the drip.
1963 Life 21 June 7/1 Take-homes [sc. souvenirs] to tempt travelers.
1996 Entertainm. Today 28 June 32 The test of a really good Chinese restaurant is when the ‘take-homes’ taste as good the next day!
2012 J. Hassan Suburban Junky viii. 123 You must be in full compliance with the program to get ‘take homes’, but if you come to..counseling and pass all your drug screens, you'll do just fine.
b. North American. Education. A take-home examination or test.
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1977 S. Turow One L iv. 195 Many professors are sniffish about take-homes. They feel that they do not provide the same stiff trial of mental agility as tests in the classroom.
1995 New Yorker 25 Dec. 129 It's pretty much open-book. It's basically a take-home.
2012 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 10 Apr. b5/5 Some students ‘are definitely afraid’, said..a junior who had one of his final exams changed to a take-home because of the disruptions.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.n.1942