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in·come

 (ĭn′kŭm′)
n.
1. The amount of money or its equivalent received during a period of time in exchange for labor or services, from the sale of goods or property, or as profit from financial investments.
2. The act of coming in; entrance.

[Middle English, arrival, entrance, from incomen, to come in, from Old English incuman : in, in; see in1 + cuman, to come; see come.]
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income

(ˈɪnkʌm; ˈɪnkəm)
n
1. (Economics) the amount of monetary or other returns, either earned or unearned, accruing over a given period of time
2. (Commerce) receipts; revenue
3. rare an inflow or influx
[C13 (in the sense: arrival, entrance): from Old English incumen a coming in]
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in•come

(ˈɪn kʌm)

n.
1. the monetary payment received for goods or services, or from other sources, such as rents or investments; revenue; receipts: an annual income of $25,000.
2. a coming in; influx.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.income - the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of timeincome - the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time
financial gain - the amount of monetary gain
disposable income - income (after taxes) that is available to you for saving or spending
double dipping - two incomes received from the same source (as by holding a government job and receiving a government pension)
easy money, gravy train - income obtained with a minimum of effort
Earnings Before Interest Taxes Depreciation and Amortization, EBITDA - income before interest and taxes and depreciation and amortization have been subtracted; an indicator of a company's profitability that is watched by investors (especially in leveraged buyouts)
net income, net profit, profit, profits, earnings, lucre, net - the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
cash flow - the excess of cash revenues over cash outlays in a give period of time (not including non-cash expenses)
personal income - the income received by a single individual
rental income - income received from rental properties
proceeds, take, takings, yield, payoff, issue, return - the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property; "the average return was about 5%"
gross revenue, gross sales, sales - income (at invoice values) received for goods and services over some given period of time
net sales - gross sales reduced by customer discounts, returns, freight out, and allowances
unearned income, unearned revenue - (accounting) income received but not yet earned (usually considered a current liability on a company's balance sheet)
unearned income, unearned revenue - personal income that you did not earn (e.g., dividends or interest or rent income)
government income, government revenue - income available to the government
per capita income - the total national income divided by the number of people in the nation
expenditure, outgo, outlay, spending - money paid out; an amount spent
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income

noun revenue, gains, earnings, means, pay, interest, returns, profits, wages, rewards, yield, proceeds, salary, receipts, takings Over a third of their income is from comedy videos.
Quotations
"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it" [Jane Austen Mansfield Park]
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Translations
دَخْلٌدَخْل، إيراد شَهْري
příjem
indkomstindtægt
tulot
prihod
jövedelem
tekjur
所得
소득
pajamų deklaracijapajamų mokestis
ienākumi
dohodek
inkomst
รายได้
thu nhập

income

[ˈɪnkʌm]
A. N (gen) → ingresos mpl; (from property) → renta f; (= salary) → salario m, sueldo m; (= takings) → entradas fpl; (= interest) → réditos mpl; (= profit) → ganancias fpl
gross/net incomeingresos mpl brutos/netos
private incomerentas fpl
national incomerenta f nacional
I can't live on my incomeno puedo vivir con lo que gano
to live beyond one's incomegastar más de lo que se gana
to live within one's incomevivir de acuerdo a los ingresos
B. CPD income and expenditure account Ncuenta f de gastos e ingresos
income bracket, income group Ncategoría f económica
the lower income groupslos sectores de ingresos más bajos
incomes policy Npolítica f salarial or de salarios
income support N (Brit) → ayuda f compensatoria
income tax Nimpuesto m sobre la renta
income tax return Ndeclaración f de impuestos
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income

[ˈɪnkəm] nrevenu m
to be on a low income → avoir un faible revenu
gross income → revenu brut
net income → revenu net income and expenditure accountincome and expenditure account ncompte m de recettes et de dépensesincome bracket ncatégorie f de revenusincome category ncatégorie f de revenusincome group ncatégorie f de revenusincome inequality ninégalité f de revenusincome source nsource f de revenusincomes policy npolitique f des revenusincome stream nrentrées fpl régulièresincome support n (British)revenu m minimum d'insertionRMI mincome tax n (gen)impôt m sur le revenu; [corporations] → impôt m sur les bénéficesincome tax inspector ninspecteur/trice m des contributions directesincome tax return ndéclaration f des revenus
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income

nEinkommen nt; (= receipts)Einkünfte pl; an annual income of £45,000ein Jahreseinkommen von £ 45.000; families on low incomes, low-income familieseinkommensschwache Familien pl; to live within one’s incomeseinen Verhältnissen entsprechend leben

income

:
income account
nErtragskonto nt
income bond
nSchuldverschreibung f (mit vom Gewinn der Gesellschaft abgängiger Verzinsung)
income bracket
nEinkommensklasse f
income group
nEinkommensgruppe f

income

:
incomes policy
nLohnpolitik f
income statement
income support
n (Brit) → ˜ Sozialhilfe f
income tax
nLohnsteuer f; (on private income) → Einkommensteuer f
income tax return
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income

[ˈɪnkʌm] n (gen) → reddito; (from receipts) → introito
gross/net income → reddito lordo/netto
private income → rendita
to live within/beyond one's income → vivere secondo i propri mezzi/al di sopra dei propri mezzi
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income

(ˈiŋkəm) noun
money received by a person as wages etc. He cannot support his family on his income.
income tax
a tax paid on income over a certain amount.
ˈincome-tax return noun
an official form that has to be completed with information about one's income and expenses and sent to a government department.
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income

دَخْلٌ příjem indkomst Einkommen εισόδημα ingresos tulot revenu prihod reddito 所得 소득 inkomen inntekt dochód renda, rendimento доход inkomst รายได้ gelir thu nhập 收入
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income

n. ingreso, entrada;
___ taximpuestos.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

income

n ingresos; low-income patients pacientes de bajos recursos
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References in classic literature ?
For a man with one hundred thousand roubles of revenue, which was what everyone fixed as Vronsky's income, such debts, one would suppose, could hardly be embarrassing; but the fact was that he was far from having one hundred thousand.
That, pending the arrival of this period, an income of six hundred pounds was to be paid to him by his two Trustees, half-yearly--at Christmas and Midsummer Day.
If she married, with a proper settlement--or, in other words, with the settlement I meant to make for her--the income from the estate (a good three thousand a year) would, during her lifetime, be at her own disposal.
His head steward came to him at Orel and Pierre reckoned up with him his diminished income. The burning of Moscow had cost him, according to the head steward's calculation, about two million rubles.
About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income. All Huntingdon exclaimed on the greatness of the match, and her uncle, the lawyer, himself, allowed her to be at least three thousand pounds short of any equitable claim to it.
Morland was himself patron and incumbent, of about four hundred pounds yearly value, was to be resigned to his son as soon as he should be old enough to take it; no trifling deduction from the family income, no niggardly assignment to one of ten children.
But my assets are very low: My little income's overspent: To trench on capital, you know, Is always inconvenient!'
The powers at Washington thought it quite the same thing to offer me Rome; but I found that the income of the Roman consulate would not give me a living, and I was forced to decline it.
It proved to be a great aggravation of Hester's offenses, in the eyes of Hester's relatives, when it was discovered that she possessed a life-interest in Salt Patch, and an income of two hundred a year.
How does Jenkins balance his income? I say, as every friend of his must say, How is it that he has not been outlawed long since, and that he ever came back (as he did to the surprise of everybody) last year from Boulogne?
Her income was not her own, she said, with such perpetual claims on it; and it was the more unkind in my father, because, otherwise, the money would have been entirely at my mother's disposal, without any restriction whatever.
Dingaan the king sat upon a day in the kraal Umgugundhlovu, waiting till his impis should return from the Income that is now named the Blood River.