INCOME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does income mean? 

• INCOME (noun)
  The noun INCOME has 1 sense:

1. the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time

  Familiarity information: INCOME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCOME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("income" is a kind of...):

financial gain (the amount of monetary gain)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "income"):

disposable income (income (after taxes) that is available to you for saving or spending)

double dipping (two incomes received from the same source (as by holding a government job and receiving a government pension))

easy money; gravy train (income obtained with a minimum of effort)

Earnings Before Interest Taxes Depreciation and Amortization; EBITDA (income before interest and taxes and depreciation and amortization have been subtracted; an indicator of a company's profitability that is watched by investors (especially in leveraged buyouts))

earnings; lucre; net; net income; net profit; profit; profits (the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses))

cash flow (the excess of cash revenues over cash outlays in a give period of time (not including non-cash expenses))

personal income (the income received by a single individual)

rental income (income received from rental properties)

issue; payoff; proceeds; return; take; takings; yield (the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property)

gross revenue; gross sales; sales (income (at invoice values) received for goods and services over some given period of time)

net sales (gross sales reduced by customer discounts, returns, freight out, and allowances)

unearned income; unearned revenue ((accounting) income received but not yet earned (usually considered a current liability on a company's balance sheet))

unearned income; unearned revenue (personal income that you did not earn (e.g., dividends or interest or rent income))

government income; government revenue (income available to the government)

per capita income (the total national income divided by the number of people in the nation)

Antonym:

outgo (money paid out; an amount spent)

 Context examples 

I make a respectable income by it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She knew her husband's income, and she loved to feel that he trusted her, not only with his happiness, but what some men seem to value more—his money.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“I have an income,” I answered stoutly, and could have bitten my tongue the next instant.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“Your own little income,” he asked, “does it come out of the business?”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The income of a successful author makes Mr. Butler look cheap.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Two-thirds of my income goes in paying the interest of mortgages.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I am an advocate for early marriages, where there are means in proportion, and would have every young man, with a sufficient income, settle as soon after four-and-twenty as he can.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

For my own part, said Isabella, my wishes are so moderate that the smallest income in nature would be enough for me.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

This is a friendly new moon, so I feel that after this new moon appears, you will see an influx of income.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It affects those of all levels of income and education.

(Domestic Violence, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)