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take-home

nett \nett\ adj. remaining after all deductions; same as net a., 3. Contrasted to gross. [Brit.] [Narrower terms: take-home]

Syn: net, clear.

Wiktionary
take-home

alt. 1 Anything that one is given to bring home from an institutional setting. 2 take-home pay. 3 An examination or assignment to be completed outside the classroom. 4 A supply of methadone that someone under treatment is allowed to take home instead of coming in to a treatment center everyday. n. 1 Anything that one is given to bring home from an institutional setting. 2 take-home pay. 3 An examination or assignment to be completed outside the classroom. 4 A supply of methadone that someone under treatment is allowed to take home instead of coming in to a treatment center everyday.

WordNet
take-home

adj. (of salary or wages) remaining after all deductions including taxes

Usage examples of "take-home".

Think of them as a massive take-home final exam that you're writing a bit at a time: all open book!

There was a receptionist by the elevator, a poised and elegant creature who looked like her take-home pay beat Richard's hands down.

He'll sell his ute and buy a truck, he reckons he's good for a small loan from the bank and his wife has inherited a couple of hundred quid, so why doesn't he tender and we work for him for the same take-home pay as we're making now?

Sleekly groomed, tall and graceful in a tailored suit whose modest style still manages to let the world know it cost more than my monthly take-home pay, Ms.

He fingered the three ten-dollar bills in his pocket, his take-home pay - cigarette money, recreation money, small luxury money the machines let him have.

It was not take-home pay from the First Oceanside Bank and Trust Company.

I pulled the other armchair in closer, and told Miriam about my run-in with Ritger and Donati on the stairs and of my suspicions that they had pocketed the bag of dope to boost their take-home pay.

Tom's rent was ninety-five, which was just a little less than half his take-home pay.

His salary was equivalent to his former take-home pay as a CIA agent, but hazardous-duty commissions for field assignments were three times that of even a Mossad dirty-tricks operative.

The check he received for six weeks of part-time work amounted to a little less than half of his weekly take-home pay from NASA, but that wasn’.

He knew that my take-home pay, considering that my home was with Wolfe, was at least four times his, and he wasn’.

He knew that my take-home pay, considering that my home was with Wolfe, was at least four times his, and he wasn't going to sponge fried clams off of any goddam plutocrat.