income

Academic Word List, sublist 1.

About 89.04 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others.
2. noun Money coming in to a fund, account, or policy.
3. noun A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction.
4. noun A newcomer or arrival; an incomer.
5. noun An entrance-fee.
6. noun A coming in as by influx or inspiration, hence, an inspired quality or characteristic, as courage or zeal; an inflowing principle.
7. noun A disease or ailment without known or apparent cause, as distinguished from one induced by accident or contagion; an oncome.
8. noun That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food.

Similar words

wages earnings taxable salary revenue turnover remuneration taxation tax monetary

Often followed by

tax and of from is in for taxes to

Word family

incomes inconsistencies inconsistency inconsistent