Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. The net earnings of a salary or wage earner.
WordNet
n. what is left of your pay after deductions for taxes and dues and insurance etc
Usage examples of "take-home pay".
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.