"ability to pay" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "abilities to pay",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "abilities to pay"
      },
      "expansion": "ability to pay (plural abilities to pay)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Taxation",
          "orig": "en:Taxation",
          "parents": [
            "Government",
            "Law",
            "Money",
            "Politics",
            "Society",
            "Justice",
            "Business",
            "All topics",
            "Economics",
            "Fundamental",
            "Social sciences",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Progressive taxes attempt to reduce the tax burden of people with a lower ability to pay."
        },
        {
          "text": "ability-to-pay taxation",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "an ability-to-pay approach",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An individual's level of wealth or income, as a measure of the tax rate they can afford to pay."
      ],
      "id": "en-ability_to_pay-en-noun-0CU6SdFK",
      "links": [
        [
          "taxation",
          "taxation"
        ],
        [
          "wealth",
          "wealth"
        ],
        [
          "income",
          "income"
        ],
        [
          "tax",
          "tax"
        ],
        [
          "rate",
          "rate"
        ],
        [
          "afford",
          "afford"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(taxation, often attributive) An individual's level of wealth or income, as a measure of the tax rate they can afford to pay."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "well-being"
        },
        {
          "word": "utility"
        },
        {
          "word": "welfare"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "often"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "economics",
        "government",
        "science",
        "sciences",
        "taxation"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "measure of tax rate",
          "word": "draagkracht"
        },
        {
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "measure of tax rate",
          "word": "kemampuan membayar"
        },
        {
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "measure of tax rate",
          "word": "kakayahang makabayad"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ability to pay"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "abilities to pay",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "1": "abilities to pay"
      },
      "expansion": "ability to pay (plural abilities to pay)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "well-being"
    },
    {
      "word": "utility"
    },
    {
      "word": "welfare"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
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        "English terms with usage examples",
        "en:Taxation"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Progressive taxes attempt to reduce the tax burden of people with a lower ability to pay."
        },
        {
          "text": "ability-to-pay taxation",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "an ability-to-pay approach",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An individual's level of wealth or income, as a measure of the tax rate they can afford to pay."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "taxation",
          "taxation"
        ],
        [
          "wealth",
          "wealth"
        ],
        [
          "income",
          "income"
        ],
        [
          "tax",
          "tax"
        ],
        [
          "rate",
          "rate"
        ],
        [
          "afford",
          "afford"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(taxation, often attributive) An individual's level of wealth or income, as a measure of the tax rate they can afford to pay."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "often"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "economics",
        "government",
        "science",
        "sciences",
        "taxation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "measure of tax rate",
      "word": "draagkracht"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "measure of tax rate",
      "word": "kemampuan membayar"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "measure of tax rate",
      "word": "kakayahang makabayad"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ability to pay"
}