incoming
[in-kuhm-ing]
adjective
noun
the act of coming in; arrival; advent: the incoming of spring.
Usually incomings. funds received; revenue.
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Origin of incoming
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incoming
late 14c., "action of coming in," from in + coming. As a present participle adjective, from 1753. Of game, from 1892; transferred in World War I to artillery; as a warning cry of incoming shellfire, it seems to date to the U.S. war in Vietnam (1968).
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