age bracket

age bracket
noun
a group of people having approximately the same age
Syn: ↑age group, ↑cohort
Hypernyms: ↑people
Hyponyms: ↑aged, ↑elderly, ↑young, ↑youth

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age bracket UK US noun [countable] [singular age bracket plural age brackets]
the range between two particular ages

people in the 50–60 age bracket

Thesaurus: general words for age and describing someone's agehyponym

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ˈage group [age group age groups] (also less frequent ˈage bracket) noun
people of a similar age or within a particular range of ages

men in the older age group

education for the 16–18 age group

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