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in⋅come

  [in-kuhm]
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–noun
1. the monetary payment received for goods or services, or from other sources, as rents or investments.
2. something that comes in as an addition or increase, esp. by chance.
3. Archaic. a coming in.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME: lit., that which has come in, n. use of incomen (ptp. of incomen to come in), OE incuman; see in, come

Related forms:
in⋅come⋅less, adjective

Synonyms:
1. interest, salary, wages, annuity, gain, return, earnings.

Antonyms:
1. outgo, expenditure.
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in·come   (ĭn'kŭm')   
n.  
  1. The amount of money or its equivalent received during a period of time in exchange for labor or services, from the sale of goods or property, or as profit from financial investments.
  2. The act of coming in; entrance.

[Middle English, arrival, entrance, from incomen, to come in, from Old English incuman : in, in; see in1 + cuman, to come; see come.]
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Income

In"come\, n. 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 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 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.

Income bond, a bond issued on the income of the corporation or company issuing it, and the interest of which is to be paid from the earnings of the company before any dividends are made to stockholders; -- issued chiefly or exclusively by railroad companies.

Income tax, a tax upon a person's incomes, emoluments, profits, etc., or upon the excess beyond a certain amount.

Syn: Gain; profit; proceeds; salary; revenue; receipts; interest; emolument; produce.
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Language Translation for : Income
Spanish: sueldo, salario,
German: das Einkommen,
Japanese: 収入
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income

The amount of money received during a period of time in exchange for labor or services, from the sale of goods or property, or as a profit from financial investments.

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income 
c.1300, "entrance, arrival," lit. "what enters," perhaps a noun use of the late O.E. verb incuman "come in," from in (adv.) + cuman "to come" (see come). Meaning "money made through business or labor" first recorded 1601. Income tax is from 1799, first introduced in Britain as a war tax, re-introduced 1842; authorized on a national level in U.S. in 1913. Incoming was originally of game approaching the hunter.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Income

Money received by a person or organization because of effort (work) or from return on investments.

Investopedia Commentary

This is the general term for all the money that ends up in your hands.

See also: Expense, Income Fund, Income Stock, Income Tax, Net Income

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Main Entry: in·come
Function: noun
: a gain or recurrent benefit usually measured in money that derives from capital or labor; also : the amount of such gain received in a period of time income of $20,000 a year>
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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