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income

[in-kuhm]

noun

  1. revenue received for goods or services, or from other sources, as rents or investments.

    For years, her only source of income was the small number of stocks her father left her.

  2. the money, or amount of money, received from one’s employment.

    a household with three incomes;

    a healthcare worker with an income that hasn’t increased in five years.

    Antonyms: expenditure, outgo
  3. something that comes in as an addition or increase, especially by chance.

  4. Archaic.,  a coming in.



income

/ ˈɪnkəm, ˈɪnkʌm /

noun

  1. the amount of monetary or other returns, either earned or unearned, accruing over a given period of time

  2. receipts; revenue

  3. rare,  an inflow or influx

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

income

  1. The amount of money received during a period of time in exchange for labor or services, from the sale of goods or property, or as a profit from financial investments.

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Other Word Forms

  • incomeless adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of income1

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English: literally, “that which has come in,” noun use of incomen (past participle of incomen “to come in”), Old English incuman; in, come
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Word History and Origins

Origin of income1

C13 (in the sense: arrival, entrance): from Old English incumen a coming in
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Example Sentences

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Investors are concerned about Strategy’s ability to service its preferred dividends and debt interest costs, considering it has little income to make those payments.

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That includes lower effective tariff rates and a boost to incomes from tax cuts.

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If those dollars are not immediately converted to Roth, earnings would be considered taxable income when withdrawn, possibly at higher rates than capital gains.

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Also on Monday, the BEA assigned a new release date for its report on September personal income and spending, which was skipped Oct.

The entertainment company is betting big on new cruise ships, which Seaport Research’s David Joyce says could add over $2.8 billion of revenue and over $500 million of operating income next year.

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