income
Americannoun
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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.
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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
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something that comes in as an addition or increase, especially by chance.
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Archaic. a coming in.
noun
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the amount of monetary or other returns, either earned or unearned, accruing over a given period of time
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receipts; revenue
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rare an inflow or influx
Other Word Forms
- incomeless adjective
Etymology
Origin of income
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
Example Sentences
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Over the past six to eight weeks, concerns about the labor market have steadily moved up the income ladder, he said.
From MarketWatch
But it may be that California’s ability to tax billionaires’ income has been pretty much tapped out.
From Los Angeles Times
Before that athletics had been largely amateur until the 1980s, when athletes were left to generate their own income if they wanted to turn professional.
From BBC
The company said it expects to exceed net operating income of $1 billion within the next five years.
From Barron's
There’s also an opportunity cost: Gold doesn’t generate income or dividends, so any money you put in results in lost income, points out Charles E. Rinehart, chief investment officer of Johnson Investment Counsel in Cincinnati.
From Barron's
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