Income

Quick meaning: Income is a noun meaning Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others.

Meaning

Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others.

More Meanings

1. (business, commerce) Money coming in to a fund, account, or policy.
2. That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food.
3. (UK dialectal, Scotland) A disease or ailment without known or apparent cause, as distinguished from one induced by accident or contagion; an oncome.
4. (obsolete) A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction.
5. (archaic or dialectal, Scotland) A newcomer or arrival; an incomer.
6. (obsolete) An entrance-fee.
7. (archaic) A coming in as by influx or inspiration, hence, an inspired quality or characteristic, as courage or zeal; an inflowing principle.

Example Sentences

Pain payes the income of ech precious thing,

more abundant incomes of light and strength from God

I would then make in indeed and steep / My income in their bloods.

In 1970 the richest 1 percent made 9 percent of the nation’s income; now that top slice makes closer to 25 percent.

Word Forms

• incomes

Antonyms for income

Common opposites include outgo, expenditure, outlay.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wages, earnings, taxable, salary, revenue, turnover.

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