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in·come (in′kum′)

noun

  1. Archaic the act or an instance of coming in
  2. the money or other gain received, esp. in a given period, by an individual, corporation, etc. for labor or services or from property, investments, operations, etc.

Etymology: ME: see in & come

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business income definition - business

law income definition - legal

income Synonyms

income

n.

earnings, salary, wages, pay, livelihood, returns, profit, dividends, interest, assets, proceeds, benefits, receipts, gains, revenue, commission, drawings, rent, royalty, honorarium, annuity, pension, income after taxes, net income, gross income, taxable income, bottom line*, pickings*, take*; see also pay 2, revenue 1, 2.

Antonyms expense*, expenditures, outgo.


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income Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • earn: Discover how YOU can earn a good income from the comfort of your own home!

Adjective modifier

  • disposable: We will also look at what ' disposable income ' you have.

Modifies a noun

  • tax: There is no income tax, capital gains tax, VAT, sales or use tax or wealth tax.

Noun used with modifier

  • household: The new child tax credit will cover families with children whose combined household incomes are below £ 60,000 a year.

Preposition: in

  • retirement: People want to know that they have a decent minimum income in retirement above which they can make their own provision.

Preposition: per

  • capita: For understanding the twin-peaked distribution of national income per capita a synergetic model based on the master equation approach has proved to be useful.
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income quotes

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

-Austen,Jane

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

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam

We ought to define a man's income as the maximum value which he can consume during a week, and still expect to be as well off at the end of the week as he was at the beginning.

-Hicks, SirJohn Richard

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