income

Meaning

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.

Related

Opposite words

• outgo

Origin

• From Middle English income, perhaps continuing (in altered form) Old English incyme, equivalent to in- + come. Cognate with Dutch inkomen ("income, earnings, gainings"), German Einkommen ("income, earnings, competence"), Icelandic innkváma ("income"), Danish indkomst ("income"), Swedish inkomst ("income").