income
Pronunciation: /ˈɪnˌkʌm/
The English word “income” has 8 meanings listed here.
noun
- Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others.
- Money coming in to a fund, account, or policy.
- A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction.
- A newcomer or arrival; an incomer.
- An entrance-fee.
- A coming in as by influx or inspiration, hence, an inspired quality or characteristic, as courage or zeal; an inflowing principle.
- A disease or ailment without known or apparent cause, as distinguished from one induced by accident or contagion; an oncome.
- That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food.
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…
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