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DOUBLE DIPPING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does double dipping mean? 

DOUBLE DIPPING (noun)
  The noun DOUBLE DIPPING has 1 sense:

1. two incomes received from the same source (as by holding a government job and receiving a government pension)play

  Familiarity information: DOUBLE DIPPING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DOUBLE DIPPING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Two incomes received from the same source (as by holding a government job and receiving a government pension)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("double dipping" is a kind of...):

income (the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time)


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