income

Meaning

1. Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others.
2. Money coming in to a fund, account, or policy.
3. (obsolete) A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction.
4. A newcomer or arrival; an incomer.
5. (obsolete) An entrance-fee.
6. A coming in as by influx or inspiration, hence, an inspired quality or characteristic, as courage or zeal; an inflowing principle.
7. A disease or ailment without known or apparent cause, as distinguished from one induced by accident or contagion; an oncome.
8. That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food.

Synonyms

revenue

earnings

profit

receipts

yield

return

proceeds

earning

gain

wage

profits

annuity

salary

pay

💸

allowance

takings

net income

resources

remuneration

livelihood

benefit

wages

incoming

recipe

rent

rente

rents

returns

rise

savings

sustenance

NINJA loan

Wages

competence

credit

crop

economy

finance

gaining

gains

hire

interest

issue

means

merit

meritocracy

money

💸

net profit

net sales

paycheck

perquisite

pocket-book

product

production

receipt

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɪnˌkʌm/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: income

Inherited from Old English: incyme

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: Íenkúumen

Cognate with Western Frisian: ynkommen

Cognate with Dutch: inkomen

Cognate with German: Einkommen

Cognate with Danish: indkomst

Cognate with Swedish: inkomst

Cognate with Icelandic: innkváma

In summary

From Middle English income, perhaps continuing (in altered form) Old English incyme (“an in-coming, entrance”), equivalent to in- + come. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Íenkúumen (“income”), West Frisian ynkommen (“income”), Dutch inkomen, inkomst (“income, earnings, gainings”), German Low German Inkumst (“income”), German Einkommen, Einkunft (“income, earnings, competence”), Danish indkomst (“income”), Swedish inkomst (“income”), Icelandic innkváma (“income”).