Income

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɪnËŒkÊŒm/

Origin

From Middle English, equivalent to - + come. Cognate with Dutch inkomen ("income, earnings, gainings"), German Einkommen ("income, earnings, competence"), Icelandic innkváma ("income"), Danish indkomst ("income"), Swedish inkomst ("income").

Full definition of income

Noun

1. Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others.
• 1918, W. B. Maxwell, The Mirror and the Lamp Chapter 23, 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.
• 2013-06-07, Joseph Stiglitz, Globalisation is about taxes too, 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.
2. (obsolete) A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction.
• Bishop Rustmore abundant incomes of light and strength from God
3. (archaic or dialectal, Scotland) A newcomer or arrival; an incomer.
4. (obsolete) An entrance-fee.
5. (archaic) A coming in as by influx or inspiration, hence, an inspired quality or characteristic, as courage or zeal; an inflowing principle.
• ChapmanI would then make in and steep
  My income in their blood.
6. (UK dialectal, Scotland) A disease or ailment without known or apparent cause, as distinguished from one induced by accident or contagion; an oncome.
7. That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food.

Anagrams

• come in