income
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnˌkʌm/
Forms: form: incomes
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”).
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: In 1970 the richest 1 percent made 9 percent of the nation’s income; now that top slice makes closer to 25 percent.
ref: 2010 December 4, Evan Thomas, “Why It’s Time to Worry”, in Newsweek, retrieved 16 Jun 2013:
text: 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.
ref: 2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:
glosses: Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others.
topics: business
commerce
glosses: Money coming in to a fund, account, or policy.
examples: text: more abundant incomes of light and strength from God
ref: 1667, George Rust, A Funeral Sermon, preached at the obsequies of […] Jeremy Lord Bishop of Down:
text: Pain payes the income of ech precious thing,
ref: 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction.
glosses: A newcomer or arrival; an incomer.
glosses: An entrance-fee.
examples: text: I would then make in indeed and steep / My income in their bloods.
ref: [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:
glosses: A coming in as by influx or inspiration, hence, an inspired quality or characteristic, as courage or zeal; an inflowing principle.
glosses: A disease or ailment without known or apparent cause, as distinguished from one induced by accident or contagion; an oncome.
glosses: That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food.
Derived terms: adjusted gross income
basic income
discretionary income
disposable income
fixed income
gross income
gross national income
high-income
household income
income bracket
incomed
income-elastic
income elasticity of demand
income group
incomeless
income-poor
income poverty
income statement
income suite
income support
income tax
income tax return
low-income
middle-income trap
middle income trap
national income
negative income tax
net income
net operating income
nowhere income
operating income
permanent income hypothesis
retained income
SSI income
stated income
stated income loan
taxable income
unearned income
universal basic income
upside-down income statement