0 the edge of a cliff (= a high area of rock with a very steep side, often on a coast), where the ground falls very steeply down: --
1 a point where a situation changes very suddenly and completely in a damaging way, or where something suddenly becomes much worse: --
If the cliff edge is £15,000, a family with an income of £20,000 would face a difficult situation.
The new map that would apply would not have the same simple cliff edge that applies currently with the area cost adjustment.
We do not know whether a cliff edge or a tapered version of stamp duty is the way forward.
The system presents a cliff edge for carers.
This substantially modified the cause of the "cliff edge" effect of the lower earnings limit.
That seems entirely right and is very much in the spirit of flexible retirement, whereby retirement is not a cliff edge but a process.
By enabling people to draw down their pension while carrying on in employment, we are eroding the cliff edge between work and retirement.
Not only would the amendment not work; it would introduce a cliff edge that would be undesirable and harsh.
