average earner
collocation in Englishmeaningsofaverageandearner
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average
adjective
uk/ˈæv.ər.ɪdʒ/us/ˈæv.ɚ.ɪdʒ/
An average number is the number you get by adding two or more amounts together and dividing the total by the number ...
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earner
noun[C]
uk/ˈɜː.nər/us/ˈɝː.nɚ/
someone or something that ...
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(Definition ofaverageandearnerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Theaverageearnerpays the national insurance contribution on his earnings between nought and £30, which is why such a large amount of money is collected.
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It now takes thataverageearnerabout 55 hours to pay for the average gas bill.
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If so, will he tell us what effect that would have on theaverageearnerof more than £25,000 a year?
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Then there is the help given by the reduction of 2p in the rate of tax, which is worth £3 a week for theaverageearner.
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Not everybody, of course, is anaverageearner.
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In 1986, it used to take theaverageearnerabout 77 hours' work to pay for his year's gas bill.
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Theaverageearnerin the south-west trial area only has to work about 44 hours to pay for his year's gas supply.
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A parliamentary answer last week reveals that today'saverageearnerpays a slightly higher proportion of his income in direct taxes than did someone on average earnings in 1978–79.
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The aspect that we find most offensive is that it contains not one provision that will relieve the tax burden of the poor or of theaverageearner.
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That means that the £5,000 base puts almost theaverageearnerwith two children into the level at which he is treated as being in higher-paid employment.
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The value of family credit for anaverageearnerwith two children under 11 will be higher in real terms than it was when we came to office in 1979.
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This movie was anaverageearner.
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The other top slots are taken by the same countries that paid the highest pensions to average earners.
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It contained a huge attack on marriage, coupled with massive redistribution by stealth from average earners to a state-based, means-tested social security system.
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In practice, that excludes thousands of people among the average earners in industry from embarking upon a mortgage at all.
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There is no doubt that the problem of the poverty trap is one which is causing increasing irritation throughout the country among groups of below average earners.
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If they opt out, the whole financial basis of the offer of half-pay on retirement—which may be 30 or 40 years—to those below average earners, falls to the ground.
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To be precise, the elements which we are already subsidising rate far more heavily in the index for pensioners than they do for average earners and for all households.
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Average earners see the pressures in drive for production destroy their human relationships, leading to wider alienation and hostility.
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