take-home

1. 1.

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

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Questions about take-home

What does take-home mean?

take-home means "(of salary or wages) remaining after all deductions including taxes".

How many syllables are in take-home?

take-home has 3 syllables and divides as ta-ke--home under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.