3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Income \In"come\, n.
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. (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}.
{Income bond}, a bond issued on the income of the corporation
or company issuing it and the interest of which is to be
paid from the earnings of the company before any dividends
are made to stockholders; -- issued chiefly or exclusively
by railroad companies.
{Income tax}, a tax upon a person's incomes, emoluments,
profits, etc., or upon the excess beyond a certain amount.
Syn: Gain; profit; proceeds; salary; revenue; receipts;
interest; emolument; produce.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
income
n : the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a
given period of time [ant: {outgo}]
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
INCOME, n. The natural and rational gauge and measure of
respectability, the commonly accepted standards being artificial,
arbitrary and fallacious; for as "Sir Sycophas Chrysolater" in the
play has justly remarked, "the true use and function of property (in
whatsoever it consisteth -- coins, or land, or houses, or merchant-
stuff, or anything which may be named as holden of right to one's own
subservience) as also of honors, titles, preferments and place and
all favor and acquaintance of persons of quality or ableness, are but
to get money. Hence it followeth that all things are truly to be
rated as of worth in measure of their serviceableness to that end and
their possessors should take rank in agreement thereto, neither the
lord of an unproducing manor, howsoever broad and ancient, nor he who
bears an unremunerate dignity, nor yet the pauper favorite of a king,
being esteemed of level excellency with him whose riches are of daily
accretion; and hardly should they whose wealth is barren claim and
rightly take more honor than the poor and unworthy."
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