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Definition: Take-home |
Take-homeAdjective1. (of salary or wages) remaining after all deductions including taxes. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Synonyms by domain: net spendable earnings (law, labor), spendable earnings, take home motor (transportation), take-home pay (law, labor). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Teaching | Homework; take-home lesson; exercise for the student; theme, project. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Take-home |
| English words defined with "take-home": faecal occult test, fecal occult test ♦ stool test ♦ take-home pay. (references) |
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Screenplays | Don't hurt us lady, our take-home is less than $300? (Batman Returns; writing credit: Bob Kane; Daniel Waters) Leave it to a dago to go halfway around the world to get a take-home meal. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear) | |
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Health | Its long duration of action permits dosing just three times per week, thereby eliminating the need for daily dosing and take-home doses for weekends. (references) | |
Political Economy | EGYPT | Base pay is supplemented by a complex system of fringe benefits and bonuses that may double or triple a worker's take-home pay. (references) |
Worker Rights | Venezuela | Total take-home pay in the private sector, the product of a presidential decree, was at least equal to that received by public sector minimum wage workers. (references) |
Egypt | The minimum wage does not provide for a decent standard of living for a worker and family; however, base pay commonly is supplemented by a complex system of fringe benefits and bonuses that may double or triple a worker's take-home pay. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Take-home" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Take-home" is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 30 | 63,341 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "take-home"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 实得工资. (various references) | |
Finnish | käteen jäävä palkka (take-home pay). (various references) | |
German | Nettogehalt (take-home pay). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ake-hometay.(various references) | |
Russian | чистый заработок (take-home pay), зарплата за вычетом налогов (take-home pay). (various references) | |
Swedish | lön efter skatt (take home). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-k-m-o-t" | |
-2 letters: hakeem. | |
-3 letters: emote, mahoe, theme. | |
-4 letters: ahem, akee, amok, atom, eath, haem, haet, hake, hame, hate, heat, heme, hoke, home, kame, keet, keto, khat, khet, make, mako, mate, math, meat, meek, meet, meta, mete, meth, moat, moke, mote, moth, oath, okeh, take, tame, teak, team, teem, thae, thee, them, toea, toke, tome. | |
-5 letters: ate, eat, eke, eme, eta, eth, hae, ham, hao, hat, hem, het, hoe, hot, kae, kat, kea, koa, mae, mat, met, mho, moa, mot, oak, oat, ohm, oka, oke, tae, tam, tao, tea, tee, the, tho, toe, tom. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 61 6B 65 2D 68 6F 6D 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01101011 01100101 00101101 01101000 01101111 01101101 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a k e - h o m e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 006B 0065 002D 0068 006F 006D 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)546777711574817971 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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