income

plural incomes

1. countableuncountableMoney one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others.

   In 1970 the richest 1 percent made 9 percent of the nation’s income; now that top slice makes closer to 25 percent.

   2010 December 4, Evan Thomas, “Why It’s Time to Worry”, in Newsweek, retrieved 16 Jun 2013

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   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.

   1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

   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.

   2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19

2. countableuncountablebusinessMoney coming in to a fund, account, or policy.
3. countableobsoleteuncountableA coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction.

   Pain payes the income of ech precious thing,

   1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC

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   more abundant incomes of light and strength from God

   1667, George Rust, A Funeral Sermon, preached at the obsequies of […] Jeremy Lord Bishop of Down

4. ScotlandarchaiccountabledialectaluncountableA newcomer or arrival; an incomer.
5. countableobsoleteuncountableAn entrance-fee.
6. archaiccountableuncountableA coming in as by influx or inspiration, hence, an inspired quality or characteristic, as courage or zeal; an inflowing principle.

   I would then make in indeed and steep / My income in their bloods.

   [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC

7. ScotlandUKcountabledialectaluncountableA disease or ailment without known or apparent cause, as distinguished from one induced by accident or contagion; an oncome.
8. countableuncountableThat which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food.