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

A coming in; entrance; admittance; ingress; infusion.

That which is caused to enter; inspiration; influence; hence, courage or zeal imparted.

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.

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.

The gain which proceeds from labor, business, property, or capital; yearly receipts of a person or business company; income tax, a tax laid upon the yearly receipts or profits of an individual or corporation.

The gain, profit, or interest resulting from anything: revenue.

Revenue; gain derived.

The amount of money coming in; revenue.

I've left him an income of a thousand dollars a year. – The Iron Woman by Margaret Deland

It would have been much easier, of course, if her husband had left her and his child " comfortably off," or even with a tiny income. – One Woman's Life by Robert Herrick

The stories of his small income touched her. – The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 by Rupert Hughes

But, Harry, we should have no income. – The Claverings by Anthony Trollope

But he was a first- rate man of business, and soon had a good income from his profession. – Stephen Arnold Douglas by William Garrott Brown

Still, it is a handsome income which he is mad enough to refuse. – Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins

I will come in for a large income, however. – The Green Mummy by Fergus Hume

A million; in other words, at the present rate of interest, an income of seventy thousand francs. – Louise de la Valliere by Alexandre Dumas, Pere

There are few sensible girls who would say no to a man with his income. – By Right of Purchase by Harold Bindloss

But it will have to be done within my income. – Floyd Grandon's Honor by Amanda Minnie Douglas

Electron and his sister had been left the family home and enough money to give them a modest income. – Underground by Suelette Dreyfus

" The income is very small to marry upon," he observed. – Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles by Mrs. Henry Wood

And then it didn't look right for people with the income we've got to live in a four- room cottage in Millville. – Clover and Blue Grass by Eliza Calvert Hall

Up to this hour, the young man has given me almost the entire control of his income. – Mabel's Mistake by Ann S. Stephens

A man wants to do the best for his own; and whatever his income, he can do better for two children than for half a dozen. – Shining Ferry by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

If I were to let any stranger come into the house without orders, I should lose an income of six hundred francs." – The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac

It is not so easy to see, with regard to the interest of workers, what becomes of the income of Aristus. – Essays on Political Economy by Frederic Bastiat

There's not been a cent of income from it since Jim Swaim got hold of it, but that's no fault of the man who is looking after it- a York Macpherson. – The Reclaimers by Margaret Hill McCarter