INCOME

Income

Income is the consumption and savings opportunity gained by an entity within a specified timeframe, which is generally expressed in monetary terms. However, for households and individuals, "income is the sum of all the wages, salaries, profits, interests payments, rents and other forms of earnings received... in a given period of time."

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income

Noun

  1. Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others.
  2. A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction.
  3. A new-comer or arrival; an incomer.
  4. An entrance-fee.
  5. A coming in as by influx or inspiration, hence, an inspired quality or characteristic, as courage or zeal; an inflowing principle.
  6. A disease or ailment without known or apparent cause, as distinguished between one induced by accident or contagion; an oncome.


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