English Explanatory Dictionary

income

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others.
  2. Money coming in to a fund, account, or policy.
  3. A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction.
  4. A newcomer or arrival; an incomer.
  5. An entrance-fee.
  6. A coming in as by influx or inspiration, hence, an inspired quality or characteristic, as courage or zeal; an inflowing principle.
  7. A disease or ailment without known or apparent cause, as distinguished from one induced by accident or contagion; an oncome.
  8. That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food.

Pronunciation

/ˈɪnˌkʌm/ en-us-income.ogg

Word forms

income incomes

Etymology

From Middle English income, perhaps continuing (in altered form) Old English incyme (“an in-coming, entrance”), equivalent to in- + come. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Íenkúumen (“income”), West Frisian ynkommen (“income”), Dutch inkomen, inkomst (“income, earnings, gainings”), German Low German Inkumst (“income”), German Einkommen, Einkunft (“income, earnings, competence”), Danish indkomst (“income”), Swedish inkomst (“income”), Icelandic innkváma (“income”).

Antonyms

outgo

Derived words

adjusted gross income basic income discretionary income disposable income fixed income gross income gross national income high-income household income income bracket incomed income-elastic income elasticity of demand income group incomeless income-poor income poverty income statement income suite income support income tax income tax return low-income middle-income trap middle income trap national income negative income tax net income net operating income nowhere income operating income permanent income hypothesis retained income SSI income stated income stated income loan taxable income unearned income universal basic income upside-down income statement
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