take home

1. 1.

   earn as a salary or wage

   “How much does your wife take home after taxes and other deductions?”

   Synonymsbring home

   Broadergain

Questions about take home

What does take home mean?

take home means "earn as a salary or wage".

What is another word for take home?

Close synonyms include bring home. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is take home a common word?

take home is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.