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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Any campaign should be paired with planning tools, such as retirement income calculators and guidance on claiming trade-offs.
From MarketWatch
The calculator asked people to enter financial details, including their income, savings, benefits and expenditure, and no details were saved, bosses said.
From BBC
A sustained rise in the oil price by $15 a barrel could raise the level of eurozone consumer prices by almost 0.5% and curtail the gain in disposable incomes accordingly, he says.
The cruise operator posted net income of $14.3 million for the quarter, or 3 cents a share, down from $254.5 million, or 52 cents a share, the year prior.
However, strengthening social safety nets and boosting incomes, as well as addressing the long-running property crisis, would lead to "a more durable revival", she said.
From Barron's
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