Meanings
comparative lower-income · superlative lowest-income
- Not earning much money, or designed for people who do not earn much money.
low-income family
3 more examples
low-income housing
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.
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, archived from the original on 03 Apr 2025In June 2021, the top-income quartile of Chase customers had a median cash buffer of 43 days, while the lowest-income quartile had a median cash buffer of 22 days.
2023 July 18, Elisabeth Buchwald, “Americans aren’t rebuilding their savings fast enough”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2023Antonyms: high-income
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot earning much money, or designed for people who do not earn much money.
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 低收入
- 低收入 (dī shōurù)Translations
Dutch met een laag inkomen
- met een laag inkomenTranslations
Finnish alhaisen tulotason
- alhaisen tulotasonTranslations
French à faibles revenus, modeste
- à faibles revenusTranslations
- modesteTranslations
- pauvreTranslations
- défavoriséTranslations
German einkommensschwach
- einkommensschwachTranslations
Hungarian alacsony jövedelmű
- alacsony jövedelműTranslations
Japanese 低所得
- 低所得 (tai shotoku)Translations
Korean 저소득
- 저소득 (jeosodeuk)Translations
Polish o niskich dochodach
- o niskich dochodachTranslations
Romanian cu venituri reduse, cu venituri scăzute
- cu venituri reduseTranslations
- cu venituri scăzuteTranslations
Russian нѝзкообеспе́ченный
- нѝзкообеспе́ченный (nìzkoobespéčennyj)Translations
Spanish de bajos recursos
- de bajos recursosTranslations
Swahili kipato cha chini
- kipato cha chiniTranslations
Cite this entry
low-income. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/low-income
“low-income.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/low-income. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “low-income,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/low-income.
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