bracket
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- (countable) A tax, income, or age bracket is a set of values with a bottom limit and a top limit or a group of people who fit between the limits.
- In the 25 to 29 age bracket, 43 percent of men and 29 percent of women had never married.
- Investors in the 28% tax bracket (taxable income between $32,450 and $46,200 a year) will pay less tax next year.
- (countable) (usually plural) A bracket is a punctuation mark used to set off extra information. The basic shape is round, like this: ( ), but the following are also brackets: [ ], { }, < >.
- Weight is given in kilograms, while numbers in brackets show weight in pounds.
- A common error in writing computer code is to forget to close your brackets.
- (countable) A bracket is one of a wide variety of pieces, usually metal, wood, or plastic that are used to support or connect machines or materials. Commonly brackets are L-shaped.
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A wooden bracket supporting a shelf
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- (transitive); (usually passive) If is bracketed by , is between .
- Her desk was bracketed by bookcases.
- (transitive); (usually passive) If two things are bracketed together, they are put together in the same group.
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