Meaning of income | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Profit or benefit that charges on a property or investment.
2. plural of ingreso
3. Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others.
   countable, uncountable
4. Obligation to pay that it purchases the State and on which issues a title.
5. Money coming in to a fund, account, or policy.
   countable, uncountable
6. Action and effect of renting.
7. A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
8. A newcomer or arrival; an incomer.
   Scotland, archaic, countable, dialectal, uncountable
9. An entrance-fee.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
10. A coming in as by influx or inspiration, hence, an inspired quality or characteristic, as courage or zeal; an inflowing principle.
    archaic, countable, uncountable
11. A disease or ailment without known or apparent cause, as distinguished from one induced by accident or contagion; an oncome.
    Scotland, UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable
12. That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“In 1970 the richest 1 percent made 9 percent of the nation’s income; now that top slice makes closer to 25 percent.”

“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.”

“more abundant incomes of light and strength from God”

“Pain payes the income of ech precious thing,”

“I would then make in indeed and steep / My income in their bloods.”

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