income.
Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others.
Meaning & usage
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.
Where this word comes from
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”).
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