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Definitions for income
ˈɪn kʌmin·come

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. incomenoun

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

Wiktionary

  1. incomenoun

    A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction.

  2. incomenoun

    A new-comer or arrival; an incomer.

  3. incomenoun

    An entrance-fee.

  4. incomenoun

    A coming in as by influx or inspiration, hence, an inspired quality or characteristic, as courage or zeal; an inflowing principle.

  5. incomenoun

    A disease or ailment without known or apparent cause, as distinguished between one induced by accident or contagion; an oncome.

  6. incomenoun

    Money one earns by working or capitalising off other people's work.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Incomenoun

    Revenue; produce of any thing.

    Etymology: in and come.

    Thou who repinest at the plenty of thy neighbour, and the greatness of his incomes, consider what are frequently the dismal consequences of all this. Robert South, Sermons.

    No fields afford
    So large an income to the village lord. John Dryden, Georg.

    St. Gaul has scarce any lands belonging to it, and little or no income but what arises from its trade: the great support of this little state is its linen manufacture. Joseph Addison, on Italy.

    Notwithstanding the large incomes annexed to some few of her preferments, this church hath in the whole little to subsist on. Francis Atterbury, Sermons.

Wikipedia

  1. Income

    Income is the consumption and saving opportunity gained by an entity within a specified timeframe, which is generally expressed in monetary terms. Income is difficult to define conceptually and the definition may be different across fields. For example, a person's income in an economic sense may be different from their income as defined by law.An extremely important definition of income is Haig–Simons income, which defines income as Consumption + Change in net worth and is widely used in economics.For households and individuals in the United States, income is defined by tax law as a sum that includes any wage, salary, profit, interest payment, rent, or other form of earnings received in a calendar year. Discretionary income is often defined as gross income minus taxes and other deductions (e.g., mandatory pension contributions), and is widely used as a basis to compare the welfare of taxpayers. In the field of public economics, the concept may comprise the accumulation of both monetary and non-monetary consumption ability, with the former (monetary) being used as a proxy for total income. For a firm, gross income can be defined as sum of all revenue minus the cost of goods sold. Net income nets out expenses: net income equals revenue minus cost of goods sold, expenses, depreciation, interest, and taxes.

ChatGPT

  1. income

    Income refers to the financial gain or earnings obtained from various sources such as employment, investments, business activities, or other monetary benefits during a specific period. It is usually measured on a weekly, monthly, or annual basis. This can include wages, salaries, interests, dividends, and profits.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Incomenoun

    a coming in; entrance; admittance; ingress; infusion

  2. Incomenoun

    that which is caused to enter; inspiration; influence; hence, courage or zeal imparted

  3. Incomenoun

    that gain which proceeds from labor, business, property, or capital of any kind, as the produce of a farm, the rent of houses, the proceeds of professional business, the profits of commerce or of occupation, or the interest of money or stock in funds, etc.; revenue; receipts; salary; especially, the annual receipts of a private person, or a corporation, from property; as, a large income

  4. Incomenoun

    that which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; -- sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food. See Food. Opposed to output

Wikidata

  1. Income

    Income is the consumption and savings opportunity gained by an entity within a specified timeframe, which is generally expressed in monetary terms. However, for households and individuals, "income is the sum of all the wages, salaries, profits, interests payments, rents and other forms of earnings received... in a given period of time." In the field of public economics, the term may refer to the accumulation of both monetary and non-monetary consumption ability, with the former being used as a proxy for total income.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Income

    in′kum, n. the gain, profit, or interest resulting from anything: revenue: (Shak.) arrival: (Scot.) a disease coming without known cause.—n.pl. In′come-bonds, a term applied to a bastard kind of security which has no mortgage rights, and is really only a sort of preference share.—ns. In′comer, one who comes in: one who takes possession of a farm, house, &c., or who comes to live in a place, not having been born there; In′come-tax, a tax directly levied on all persons having incomes above a certain amount.—adj. In′coming, coming in, as an occupant: accruing: (Scot.) ensuing, next to follow.—n. the act of coming in: revenue. [Eng. in and come.]

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Income

    Revenues or receipts accruing from business enterprise, labor, or invested capital.

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz

  1. INCOME

    The reliable offspring of a wise investment. From Lat. _in_ and _coma_, meaning sleep. Money which works while you sleep.

Editors Contribution

  1. income

    The amount of money or currency a person earns or receives.

    They did receive a just sufficient income to enable them to marry.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 7, 2020  


  2. income

    The amount of money or currency received to a business, company, enterprise, organization or person for commodities, employment, goods, products or services, work, self-employment or unity government support.

    The income from the business was enough to live on.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 4, 2020  


  3. income

    The amount of money or currency received to a form of unity assembly, unity council, unity legislature, unity senate, house of representatives, unity government, local unity government, regional unity government, national unity government, european unity government and international unity government or person for commodities, goods, products, services or tax receipts.

    The local unity government received a sufficient income from various sources.


    Submitted by MaryC on April 7, 2020  

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  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'income' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #826

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'income' in Written Corpus Frequency: #957

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'income' in Nouns Frequency: #315

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of income in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of income in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of income in a Sentence

  1. Med Jones:

    All financial rations being equal, I prefer to invest in multinational companies with more diversified sources of income and who can benefit from the higher growth of the emerging markets.

  2. Ian Smulders:

    If we are going to get any tourists this year — and it's a big' if' — then they are going to be mainly elderly people, pensioners, whose income hasn't been affected by the pandemic.

  3. Emily Callander:

    For those who are already in retirement it may be that the costs of treatment or costs of accessing aids or career services have required them to draw down some of their assets, which would lower the income they derive from their assets.

  4. Mark Steber:

    You could have had a mediocre 2020, as many millions of Americans did, but then in 2021 -- especially with the rest of 2021 to go -- with the economy picking up steam, you could move into a higher-income situation and really have a surprise come tax time.

  5. Carly Fiorina:

    Every policy she is pursuing will make income inequality worse, not better, crony capitalism even worse, not better. And meanwhile, we will continue to crush the businesses that create jobs and middle-class families.

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