income Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

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.
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.
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.
(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. Syn. -- Gain; profit; proceeds; salary; revenue; receipts; interest; emolument; produce.