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income en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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”).

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others.
    • 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:
    • 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:
    • 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:
  2. (countable, uncountable) Money coming in to a fund, account, or policy.
  3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction.
    • 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:
    • Pain payes the income of ech precious thing, 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:
  4. (Scotland, archaic, countable, dialectal, uncountable) A newcomer or arrival; an incomer.
  5. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) An entrance-fee.
  6. (archaic, countable, uncountable) A 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. (Scotland, UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable) A disease or ailment without known or apparent cause, as distinguished from one induced by accident or contagion; an oncome.
  8. (countable, uncountable) That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food.

Forms

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incomes Number=Plur lexicographic

Antonyms

outgo (antonym(s) of “money coming in”)

Deriveds

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

Descendants

incwm · ioncam

Translations (129)

sh при́ход (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · mn орлого (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · uz kelim (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · ur آمْدَنی (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · cs důchod (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · tk girdeji (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · lt pajamos (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · pt rendimento (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · pt renda (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · az qazanc (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · el εισόδημα (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · fa-ira دَرْآمَد (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · my ဝင်ငွေ (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · es renta (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · ps عايد (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · ug كىرىم (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · id pendapatan (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · ps دخل (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · ml വരുമാനം (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · grc λῆμμα (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · ga ioncam (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · et tulu (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · ky доход (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · ug دارامەت (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · he הַכְנָסָה (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · sl dohodek (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · kk кіріс (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · es ingresos (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · sq të ardhura (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · is tekjur (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · xqa كِرِشْ (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · pl dochód (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · yue 收入 (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · ko 수입 (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · ru при́быль (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · sh príhod (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · ru прихо́д (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · be дахо́д (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · mn ᠣᠷᠤᠯᠭ᠎ᠠ (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · mr आय (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · nl inkomen (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · ko 소득 (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · km បដិលាភ (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · fa-ira دَخْل (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · tg даромад (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · ro venit (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · mi whiwhinga (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · uz daromad (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · hu bevétel (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · cy incwm (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · be прыбы́так (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · tr varidat (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · gl renda (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · es ingreso (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · hi आमदनी (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · tt керем (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · ru поступле́ния (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · sq fitim (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · sv inkomst (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · sw mapato (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · ky киреше (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · cmn 收入 (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · fr revenu (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · ka შემოსავალი (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · mt dħul (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · fi tulo (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · uz kirim (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · gd teachd-a-steach (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · ms pendapatan (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · id penghasilan (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · tk düşewünt (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · bg при́ход (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · de Einkommen (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · bn আয় (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · ga teacht isteach (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · th รายได้ (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · tr hasılat (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · vi thu nhập (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · uk дохо́д (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · cs příjem (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · lv ienākums (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · uk прибу́ток (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · ja 所得 (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · km ចំណូល (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · mn ашиг (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · eo enspezo (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · is inntekt (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · la fructus (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · da indkomst (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · hi आय (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · as উপাৰ্জন (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · kmr dahat (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · da indtægt (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · tr gelir (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · ar دَخْل (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · it reddito (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · mk приход (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · hi कमाई (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · bg до́ход (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · ur کَمائی (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · kmr deramet (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · as আয় (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · mi whiwhinga moni (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · it introiti (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · te ఆదాయము (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · hy եկամուտ (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · ar إِيرَاد (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · mi moni whiwhi (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · ru дохо́д (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · fi ansiot (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · ja 収入 (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · hu jövedelem (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · la reditus (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · mn ᠠᠰᠢᠭ (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · ca renda (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · sk príjem (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · ru за́работок (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · az gəlir (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · fr recette (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · tl kita (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · lo ລາຍໄດ້ (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · nb inntekt (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · el έσοδα (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · fi tulot (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · kk табыс (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · uk дохі́д (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · tg дахл (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · et sissetulek (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others) · tr irat (money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others)