income
//ˈɪnˌkʌm//
Forms
- Plural
- incomes
Definitions
1.Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others.
- In 1970 the richest 1 percent made 9 percent of the nation’s income; now that top slice makes closer to 25 percent.
2.Money coming in to a fund, account, or policy.
3.That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1119
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
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Etymology
From Middle English income, perhaps continuing (in altered form) Old English incyme (“an in-coming, entrance”), equivalent to in- + come.