bracket

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   One of a set of ranges into which things are grouped, such as for tax or age.

   A pay rise pushed her into a higher tax bracket.

2. 2
   noun

   A support fixed to a wall to hold up a shelf or other object.

   He fixed metal brackets to the wall to hold the shelf.

3. 3
   verb

   To group or classify things together.

   The coach bracketed the younger players with the older ones.

Common collocations

• bracket creep Noun + noun

From earlier bragget, *bracket, from Middle English *braget, *braket (attested in braket nail), from Old French braguette (“the opening in the fore part of a pair of breeches, one's fly”), a diminutive of Old French brague (“knickers, britches”), from Old Occitan braga, from Latin brāca (“pants”), from Transalpine Gaulish *brāca, from Proto-Germanic *brāks, an early form of Proto-Germanic *brōks (“leggings, breeches, trousers”).

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