Definitions
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- n. Anything that one is given to bring home from an institutional setting.
- n. Take-home pay.
- n. An examination or assignment to be completed outside the classroom.
- n. A supply of methadone that someone under treatment is allowed to take home instead of coming in to a treatment center everyday.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. (of salary or wages) remaining after all deductions including taxes
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Examples
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All he knew was that her bonus alone was triple his annual take-home pay, which allowed him to continue making furniture.
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They will experience the equivalent of a 7.7% cut in take-home pay due to a provision requiring them to pay for pensions and pay more for health care, according to Steven Deller, an economist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
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The transformation can be achieved only by collective action, he says, of the sort that was revealed in the 2008 presidential election campaign—a "take-home lesson" in the possibilities of volunteer participation.
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Thies says the take-home message is that if an elderly loved one starts showing up with bruising and has unexplained falls, it's worth a trip to a healthcare provider.
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The take-home lesson is that it's important to commit to good oral health, because it's vital and affects your entire wellbeing.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Why Oral Health Leads to Overall Health
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She says the take-home message for parents is to help their children find ways other than eating to deal with rejection and peer adversity: "Kids may need to talk about their feelings and seek comfort in other activities."
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The hybrid plan also increases workers' take-home pay because workers' contributions are lower than they are in the old defined-benefit plan.
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One employee told the Times that the decrease would amount to 33 percent of take-home pay before accounting for this year's taxes, and that some were liable to take an $8,000 hit this year.
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Associate attorneys—typically the youngest and least experienced of all the lawyers at a firm—spend months wringing their hands and speculating over what their take-home bonus will be.
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Other banks also raised some employees' salaries after the end of the financial crisis in order to ease their fears that overall take-home pay was about to be cut.
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