low-income

English

Adjective

low-income (comparative lower-income, superlative lowest-income)

1. Not earning much money, or designed for people who do not earn much money.

   Antonym: high-income

   low-income housing

   low-income family

   • 2023 February 13, Chad Marlow & Jay Stanley, “How to Pump the Brakes on Your Police Department’s Use of Flock’s Mass Surveillance License Plate Readers”, in ACLU‎^[1]:

     We don’t find every use of ALPRs objectionable. For example, we do not generally object to using them to check license plates against lists of stolen cars, for AMBER Alerts, or for toll collection, provided they are deployed and used fairly and subject to proper checks and balances, such as ensuring devices are not disproportionately deployed in low-income communities and communities of color, and that the “hot lists” they are run against are legitimate and up to date.

Translations

Translations

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 低收入 (dī shōurù)

• Dutch: met een laag inkomen
• Finnish: alhaisen tulotason
• French: à faibles revenus, modeste (fr), pauvre (fr), défavorisé (fr)
• Georgian: დაბალშემოსავლიანი (dabalšemosavliani)
• German: einkommensschwach (de)
• Hungarian: alacsony jövedelmű
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• Polish: o niskich dochodach
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• Romanian: (all prepositional phrases; all also in the singular possible albeit less common) cu venituri mici, cu venituri reduse, cu venituri scăzute
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• Spanish: de bajos recursos
• Swahili: kipato cha chini

Further reading

• “low-income”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “low-income” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.