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Webster 1913 Edition
Income
In′come
,Noun.
1.
A coming in; entrance; admittance; ingress; infusion.
[Obs.]
Shak.
More abundant
incomes
of light and strength from God. Bp. Rust.
At mine
income
I louted low. Drant.
2.
That which is caused to enter; inspiration; influence; hence, courage or zeal imparted.
[R.]
I would then make in and steep
My
My
income
in their blood. Chapman.
3.
That gain which proceeds from labor, business, property, or capital of any kind, as the produce of a farm, the rent of houses, the proceeds of professional business, the profits of commerce or of occupation, or the interest of money or stock in funds, etc.; revenue; receipts; salary; especially, the annual receipts of a private person, or a corporation, from property;
as, a large
. income
No fields afford
So large an
So large an
income
to the village lord. Dryden.
4.
(Physiol.)
That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; – sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food. See
Food
. Opposed to output
.
Syn. – Gain; profit; proceeds; salary; revenue; receipts; interest; emolument; produce.
Webster 1828 Edition
Income
IN'COME
,Noun.
1.
A coming in; admission; introduction. [Not in use.]Definition 2024
income
income
English
Noun
income (countable and uncountable, plural incomes)
- Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 23, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs. Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground.
- 2010 Dec. 4, Evan Thomas, "Why It’s Time to Worry", Newsweek (retrieved 16 June 2013):
- In 1970 the richest 1 percent made 9 percent of the nation’s income; now that top slice makes closer to 25 percent.
- 2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:
- It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.
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- (obsolete) A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction.
- Bishop Rust
- more abundant incomes of light and strength from God
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- Bishop Rust
- (archaic or dialectal, Scotland) A newcomer or arrival; an incomer.
- (obsolete) An entrance-fee.
- (archaic) A coming in as by influx or inspiration, hence, an inspired quality or characteristic, as courage or zeal; an inflowing principle.
- Chapman
- I would then make in and steep / My income in their blood.
- Chapman
- (Britain dialectal, Scotland) A disease or ailment without known or apparent cause, as distinguished from one induced by accident or contagion; an oncome.
- That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food.
Derived terms
Translations
Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others
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