income

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Etymology

From Middle English, equivalent to in- +‎ come. Cognate with Dutch inkomen (“income, earnings, gainings”), German Einkommen (“income, earnings, competence”), Icelandic innkváma (“income”), Danish indkomst (“income”), Swedish inkomst (“income”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɪnˌkʌm/

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Noun

income (plural incomes)

1. (obsolete) A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction.
2. (archaic or dialectal, Scotland) A new-comer or arrival; an incomer.
3. (obsolete) An entrance-fee.
4. (archaic) A coming in as by influx or inspiration, hence, an inspired quality or characteristic, as courage or zeal; an inflowing principle.
5. (UK dialectal, Scotland) A disease or ailment without known or apparent cause, as distinguished between one induced by accident or contagion; an oncome.
6. (or uncountable) Money one earns by working or capitalising off other people's work.
   • In 1970 the richest 1 percent made 9 percent of the nation’s income; now that top slice makes closer to 25 percent. — Evan Thomas, Why It’s Time to Worry, Newsweek 2010-12-04

Translations

Money one earns by working or capitalising off other people's work

Armenian: եկամուտ (hy) (ekamut) Chinese: 收入 (shōu rù) Czech: příjem (cs) m. Danish: indtægt (da) c., indkomst (da) c. Dutch: inkomen (nl) n. Finnish: tulot (always plural) French: revenu (fr) m., recette (fr) f. German: Einkommen (de) n. Greek: εισόδημα (el) (eisódima) n. Hungarian: bevétel (hu), jövedelem (hu)

Italian: introiti (always plural) Japanese: 所得 (ja) (しょとく, shotoku), 収入 (ja) (しゅうにゅう, shuunyuu) Norwegian: inntekt (no) Polish: dochód (pl) m. Portuguese: renda (pt) f., rendimento (pt) m. Russian: доход (ru) (doxód) m. Scottish Gaelic: teachd-a-steach (gd) m. Spanish: ingreso (es) m. Swahili: mapato (sw) Swedish: inkomst (sv) c.

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