|
Income - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
|
Income : (noun)
1: the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a
given period of time [ant: outgo]
Based on WordNet 2.0
|
|
Income : \In"come\, n.
1. A coming in; entrance; admittance; ingress; infusion.
[Obs.] --Shak.
More abundant incomes of light and strength from
God. --Bp. Rust.
At mine income I louted low. --Drant.
2. That which is caused to enter; inspiration; influence;
hence, courage or zeal imparted. [R.]
I would then make in and steep My income in their
blood. --Chapman.
3. That gain which proceeds from labor, business, property,
or capital of any kind, as the produce of a farm, the rent
of houses, the proceeds of professional business, the
profits of commerce or of occupation, or the interest of
money or stock in funds, etc.; revenue; receipts; salary;
especially, the annual receipts of a private person, or a
corporation, from property; as, a large income.
No fields afford So large an income to the village
lord. --Dryden.
4. (Physiol.) That which is taken into the body as food; the
ingesta; -- sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or
digestible, portion of the food. See Food. Opposed to
output.
Income bond, a bond issued on the income of the corporation
or company issuing it, and the interest of which is to be
paid from the earnings of the company before any dividends
are made to stockholders; -- issued chiefly or exclusively
by railroad companies.
Income tax, a tax upon a person's incomes, emoluments,
profits, etc., or upon the excess beyond a certain amount.
Syn: Gain; profit; proceeds; salary; revenue; receipts;
interest; emolument; produce.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
|
|
INCOME. The gain which proceeds from property, labor, or business; it is
applied particularly to individuals; theIncome : of the government is usually
called revenue.
2. It has been holden that a devise of the income of land, is in effect
the same as a devise of the land itself. 9 Mass. 372; 1 Ashm. 136.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
|
|
|
|
Example Usage of Income |
 |
stacyisfine: Income demographics and rents in neighborhoods all over NYC: http://envisioningdevelopment.net/map |
 |
passiveprofit: University System of Maryland pledges to up graduation rate of low-Income ...: The University System of Maryland and 23 other school syst.. |
 |
ftmoney: Money Matters blog: How to avoid the 50% Income tax rate http://bit.ly/6H9Gyl |
|
