Definition of "high-income" []

• Of or relating to individuals or groups, such as families, that are supported by or earn income considered high in comparison with that of the larger population: high-income taxpayers. (adjective)

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• "For instance, the J.P. Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Index Global—a benchmark bond index for emerging-market bonds—doesn't include South Korea and Taiwan because they are characterized as high-income economies by the World Bank."
• ""Obama could argue that he was providing a new, if temporary, benefit tilted toward high-income households, while encouraging them to spend the money in socially productive ways," she wrote."
• "As for the evidence of people working (relatively?) hard even if they do pay high taxes: Germany has a current tax rate of 45% for the very high-income earners, average is about 34% I think, and that's just income tax."