bracket1 nounbracket2 verb
bracketbrack‧et1 /ˈbrækɪt/ ●●○ noun [countable] 
WORD ORIGINbracket1
Origin:
1500-1600 French braguette ‘codpiece’, from brague ‘trousers’, from Latin braca; because of the way a bracket (3) sticks outEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Several companies have produced pension plans specifically for people in the higher income tax bracket.
- A good ground is easy to find; hoisting lugs on the engine or the alternator mounting brackets make good grounds.
- A little ink bottle and two pens were fastened to its floor by gold brackets.
- A slender pointed cellular disrupter swung out on skeletal brackets.
- Hide the brackets by adding an edging of deep wallpaper border - backing it with stiff card for extra durability.
- Supplements in brackets apply to July and August departures.
- That same family, with the exact same buying power, would have been forced into the 40-percent bracket by 1980.
- The square brackets reveal the position and length of the inserts.
Longman Language Activatora group of people who are the same age, have the same income etc
: age/income/blood etc group a group of people with the same age, income, blood type etc: · The good thing about the class is that all the students belong to the same age group.· Families in the lowest income group could not afford to educate their children.· The hospital is desperate for donors from the rhesus negative blood group.
: tax/income/age etc bracket people who are considered as a group, especially for official or financial purposes, because they have the same income, are of similar age etc: · Several companies have produced pension plans specifically for people in the higher income tax bracket.
: income/tax/age etc band a group of people whose income, tax, or age comes within a particular range: · These changes will not affect people in the lowest tax band.· As you move into the higher income bands, the charges start to increase.
WORD SETSA, nounABC, nounalpha, nounalphabet, nounalphabetical, adjectiveampersand, nounapostrophe, nounasterisk, nounB, nounbeta, nounblock capitals, nounblock letters, nounbrace, nounbracket, nounbracket, verbC, nouncapital, nouncapital, adjectivecapitalize, verbcaps, cedilla, nouncircumflex, nounclause, nouncolon, nouncomma, nounconsonant, nounCyrillic, adjectiveD, noundash, noundelta, noundiacritic, nounditto, nounE, nounexclamation mark, nounF, nounG, noungamma, nounGothic, adjectivegrave, adjectiveH, nounhyphen, nounI, nounIPA, nounJ, nounK, nounL, nounletter, nounlower case, nounM, nounN, nounNHS, the, O, nounoblique, nounomega, nounP, nounparenthesis, nounperiod, nounpunctuate, verbpunctuation, nounpunctuation mark, nounQ, nounquestion mark, nounquestion tag, nounquotation mark, nounR, nounrune, nounS, nounschwa, nounscript, nounsemicolon, nounslash, nounsmall, adjectivespeech marks, nounsquare bracket, nounstar, nounstenography, nounstress mark, nounT, nountilde, nounU, nounumlaut, nounupper case, nounV, nounvowel, nounW, nounX, nounY, nounZ, nounzed, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
single people in the 40–50 age bracket
· Men in the 50–65 age group are most at risk from heart disease.· The school takes in children from the seven to eleven age range.
single people in the 40–50 age bracket (=income level)· In general, people in higher income brackets live longer.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· It revealed that the main examiners of food labels were women, particularly and those in the higher socio-economic brackets.· New taxes will also be introduced for high income brackets.· Together, that amounts to an annual tax saving of up to £1,000, compared to cars in a higher tax bracket.· Distributions are subject to ordinary income tax, and taking too large a distribution could propel you into a higher tax bracket.· Again it came as no surprise that the winners were in all the higher price bracket.· The rise is largely accounted for by rising incomes and profits which bring more taxpayers and companies into higher tax brackets.
· Additionally, when you retire, you may be in a lower tax bracket.· Presumably, the student will have little other income, and therefore be in a low tax bracket.
· The square bracket shows the position of the insert.· The square brackets reveal the position and length of the inserts.· Note: Practitioners must decide whether they wish to include the words in square brackets.· Unless otherwise specified, all fields have a maximum length of 20 characters, including colons, square brackets, etc.· These are the plus, the stroke, the colon, the square brackets and the double colon.· Remember that it must be 20 characters maximum, including square brackets.· The numbers in square brackets are the absolute numbers, given to illustrate the incidence of both in the data.
· People in the upper brackets of income have the opportunity to participate in the stock and bond markets.
NOUN· He's in the right age bracket, forty-five, and from his responses today he would seem to be sexually maladjusted.· The baby boomers reached the age brackets in which workers are normally highiy efficient.· But we need to keep in mind that the figures for those in the older age brackets are obviously for survivors only.
· Fix the batten in place with angle brackets, then attach the blind with touch-and-close fastener.· A simple solution is to use small angle brackets which support the tile but are not actually fixed to it.
· New taxes will also be introduced for high income brackets.· This is the income bracket that starts all the trouble and keeps a person on edge.· Dataquest said only 12 percent in this income bracket owned computers.
· Collections in just about every price bracket offered interpretations of the equestrian or dandy themes.· The showhouse will be one in the middle price bracket.· If that's out of your price bracket ... there's always pork scratchings at 30 pence a bag.· Again it came as no surprise that the winners were in all the higher price bracket.
· We begin paying income tax at 25 percent once we move into the tax bracket.· Name the ethnicity, tax bracket or wardrobe, and they were there in full force.· Together, that amounts to an annual tax saving of up to £1,000, compared to cars in a higher tax bracket.· Two investors, both in 28 percent tax bracket, save $ 2, 000 annually at 8 percent.· In addition they estimated the implied income tax brackets associated with each dividend payout level.· Why should you and I be in the same tax bracket as Steve Forbes?· It's all to do with the £19,250 tax bracket and engines below 2 litres.· The key is, does your tax bracket justify buying munis?
VERB· The following cross-veins are the most important and their symbols are given in brackets.· The zone numbers are given in brackets if the record is doubtful.· Programme Directors are given in brackets.
· The heater unit is safely contained inside, clear of aggressive fish - use both the brackets supplied. 3.· A simple solution is to use small angle brackets which support the tile but are not actually fixed to it.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
1 (also round bracket) [usually plural] British English one of the pair of signs ( ) put around words to show extra information SYN parenthesis American Englishin brackets- Dataquest said only 12 percent in this income bracket owned computers.
- In addition they estimated the implied income tax brackets associated with each dividend payout level.
- It's all to do with the £19,250 tax bracket and engines below 2 litres.
- Jack Kemp would have to recommend that tax brackets be compressed to as low as 10 percent to dull their allure.
- Name the ethnicity, tax bracket or wardrobe, and they were there in full force.
- The key is, does your tax bracket justify buying munis?
- Together, that amounts to an annual tax saving of up to £1,000, compared to cars in a higher tax bracket.
- Why should you and I be in the same tax bracket as Steve Forbes?
Last year’s sales figures are given in brackets. → angle brackets, square bracket, punctuation mark2income/tax/age etc bracket a particular income, tax etc range: the highest tax bracket families in lower income brackets3a piece of metal, wood, or plastic, often in the shape of the letter L, fixed to a wall to support something such as a shelfbracket1 nounbracket2 verb
bracketbracket2 verb [transitive] VERB TABLE
bracket
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | bracket |
| he, she, it | brackets | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | bracketed |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have bracketed |
| he, she, it | has bracketed | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had bracketed |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will bracket |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have bracketed |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am bracketing |
| he, she, it | is bracketing | |
| you, we, they | are bracketing | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was bracketing |
| you, we, they | were bracketing | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been bracketing |
| he, she, it | has been bracketing | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been bracketing |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be bracketing |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been bracketing |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- The airport's runway was bracketed on one end by power lines and on the other by a peach orchard.
- The strong U.S. economy of the 1980s was bracketed by two recessions.
- Unpaid amounts have been bracketed.
- All pipes should be bracketed to avoid accidental damage.
- But if the commonsense understanding of schooling is bracketed and belief suspended, another reality emerges, the life of the playground.
- Collision fenders were bracketed a few inches below the ends of the baulks.
- Immediately four faint, narrow lines appeared, bracketing a tiny and undistinguished star.
- Now his fate is to be for ever bracketed in the political record books with Austen Chamberlain.
- Sometimes it ignores lesbianism; sometimes it brackets it together with male homosexuality.
- The three ships swirled around my ship, neatly bracketing it as they matched its speed.
WORD SETS
A, nounABC, nounalpha, nounalphabet, nounalphabetical, adjectiveampersand, nounapostrophe, nounasterisk, nounB, nounbeta, nounblock capitals, nounblock letters, nounbrace, nounbracket, nounbracket, verbC, nouncapital, nouncapital, adjectivecapitalize, verbcaps, cedilla, nouncircumflex, nounclause, nouncolon, nouncomma, nounconsonant, nounCyrillic, adjectiveD, noundash, noundelta, noundiacritic, nounditto, nounE, nounexclamation mark, nounF, nounG, noungamma, nounGothic, adjectivegrave, adjectiveH, nounhyphen, nounI, nounIPA, nounJ, nounK, nounL, nounletter, nounlower case, nounM, nounN, nounNHS, the, O, nounoblique, nounomega, nounP, nounparenthesis, nounperiod, nounpunctuate, verbpunctuation, nounpunctuation mark, nounQ, nounquestion mark, nounquestion tag, nounquotation mark, nounR, nounrune, nounS, nounschwa, nounscript, nounsemicolon, nounslash, nounsmall, adjectivespeech marks, nounsquare bracket, nounstar, nounstenography, nounstress mark, nounT, nountilde, nounU, nounumlaut, nounupper case, nounV, nounvowel, nounW, nounX, nounY, nounZ, nounzed, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES single people in the 40–50 age bracket
1to consider two or more people or things as being similar or the samebe bracketed together· Men in the 50–65 age group are most at risk from heart disease.· The school takes in children from the seven to eleven age range.
single people in the 40–50 age bracket (=income level)· In general, people in higher income brackets live longer.
Women and minors were bracketed together for the legislation.be bracketed with somebody/something Arizona has been bracketed with Iowa in the tournament.2to put brackets around a written word, piece of information etc: Debit amounts are bracketed.GRAMMAR Bracket is usually passive.