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pretax

[ pree-taks ]

adjective

  1. prior to the payment of taxes: taxis: tax:

    pretax income; bonds earning 12 percent pretax.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of pretax1

First recorded in 1940–45; pre- + tax

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Example Sentences

The slow growth of pretax incomes for the bottom 50% of earners has been the main driver of increasing income inequality over the past half-century.

It now makes up nearly 14% of a typical Dominion customer’s pretax gas bill, according to the analysis by Mountain State Spotlight and ProPublica.

Yet Boeing has paid zero federal income taxes in the past decade, despite bringing in $32 billion of pretax profits.

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