Definitions for income
ˈɪn kʌmin·come

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.8 / 4 votes

1. incomenoun

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

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.3 / 4 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

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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.

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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 DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

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

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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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 MedicineRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Income

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

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon WurdzRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. INCOME

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

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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  

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   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  

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   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. • Financial Gain

British National Corpus

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

Anagrams for income »

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How to pronounce income?

1. Alex

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   Mark

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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. Joseph Strasburg:

   Owners recognize and support the need to help tenants without sufficient financial resources to pay rent due to job loss or health circumstances. However, this proposed bill extends the eviction moratorium for residential tenants based on the submission of a simple declaration of financial hardship without proving such hardship caused by COVID-related job loss or income reduction, with no requirement of proof that the COVID-19 pandemic negatively affected their income, and no income limitation to qualify for eviction protection, a tenant whose household income went from a half-million dollars to $250,000 would qualify for eviction protection by declaring that their income has been significantly reduced.

2. Lord Thomas Dewar:

   The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.

3. Joseph Strasburg:

   With no requirement of proof that the COVID-19 pandemic negatively affected their income, and no income limitation to qualify for eviction protection, a tenant whose household income went from a half-million dollars to $250,000 would qualify for eviction protection by declaring that their income has been significantly reduced.

4. Charles Dickens:

   Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

5. Plato:

   When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

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