Income
['ɪnkʌm]
Definition
(noun.) the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time.
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Definition
(n.) A coming in; entrance; admittance; ingress; infusion.
(n.) That which is caused to enter; inspiration; influence; hence, courage or zeal imparted.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
Typist: Nora
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Revenue, profits, gains.
Typist: Martha
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Proceeds, pay, allowance
ANT:Disbursement, expenditure
Editor: Sidney
Definition
n. the gain profit or interest resulting from anything: revenue: (Shak.) arrival: (Scot.) a disease coming without known cause.—n.pl. In′come-bonds a term applied to a bastard kind of security which has no mortgage rights and is really only a sort of preference share.—ns. In′comer one who comes in: one who takes possession of a farm house &c. or who comes to live in a place not having been born there; In′come-tax a tax directly levied on all persons having incomes above a certain amount.—adj. In′coming coming in as an occupant: accruing: (Scot.) ensuing next to follow.—n. the act of coming in: revenue.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of coming into the possession of your income, denotes that you may deceive some one and cause trouble to your family and friends. To dream that some of your family inherits an income, predicts success for you. For a woman to dream of losing her income, signifies disappointments in life. To dream that your income is insufficient to support you, denotes trouble to relatives or friends. To dream of a portion of your income remaining, signifies that you will be very successful for a short time, but you may expect more than you receive.
Typist: Nora
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. The natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability the commonly accepted standards being artificial arbitrary and fallacious; for as 'Sir Sycophas Chrysolater ' in the play has justly remarked 'the true use and function of property (in whatsoever it consisteth—coins or land or houses or merchant-stuff or anything which may be named as holden of right to one's own subservience) as also of honors titles preferments and place and all favor and acquaintance of persons of quality or ableness are but to get money. Hence it followeth that all things are truly to be rated as of worth in measure of their serviceableness to that end; and their possessors should take rank in agreement thereto neither the lord of an unproducing manor howsoever broad and ancient nor he who bears an unremunerate dignity nor yet the pauper favorite of a king being esteemed of level excellency with him whose riches are of daily accretion; and hardly should they whose wealth is barren claim and rightly take more honor than the poor and unworthy. '
Checker: Monroe
Unserious Contents or Definition
The reliable offspring of a wise investment. From Lat. in and coma, meaning sleep. Money which works while you sleep.
Editor: Sonya
Examples
- My own small income (I devoutly wish that my grandfather had left it to the Ocean rather than to me! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The 8000 or so motion-picture theatres of the country employ no fewer than 40,000 people, whose aggregate annual income amounts to not less than $37,000,000. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He will have a very pretty income to make ducks and drakes with, and earned without much trouble. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- It is true that the tower commanded a pretty view by land and water, but Colonel Sellers himself might have projected this enterprise as a possible source of steady income. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- There were families in London who would have sacrificed a year's income to receive such an honour at the hands of those great ladies. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Edward was not entirely without hopes of some favourable change in his mother towards him; and on THAT he rested for the residue of their income. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- That this income was regularly paid by the active Trustee, Mr. Godfrey Ablewhite. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I tell you again, Sir Percival Glyde has no shadow of a claim to expect more than the income of the money. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But if you have run into debt, you must suffer the consequences, and put aside your monthly income till your bills are paid. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I hope they will manage their little income. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Two-thirds of my income goes in paying the interest of mortgages. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Your own little income, he asked, does it come out of the business? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I have strong reason for confidently believing that we shall never be in the receipt of a smaller income than our present income. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- My situation is as much altered as my income. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The rich, pursued the infatuated and unconscious Donne, are a parcel of misers, never living as persons with their incomes ought to live. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The smiths make larger incomes in buying and applying the machine-made shoes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Her ideas are not higher than her own fortune may warrant, but they are beyond what our incomes united could authorise. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her outgoes are greater than her incomes. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
Typist: Patricia