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income

/ˈɪnˌkʌm/

Where it comes from

From Middle English income, perhaps continuing (in altered form) Old English incyme (“an in-coming, entrance”), equivalent to in- + come. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Íenkúumen (“income”), West Frisian ynkommen (“income”), Dutch inkomen, inkomst (“income, earnings, gainings”), German Low German Inkumst (“income”), German Einkommen, Einkunft (“income, earnings, competence”), Danish indkomst (“income”), Swedish inkomst (“income”), Icelandic innkváma (“income”).

noun incomes

countable, uncountable Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others. The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs. Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground.
countable, uncountable Money coming in to a fund, account, or policy.
countable, obsolete, uncountable A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction. more abundant incomes of light and strength from God
Scotland, archaic, countable, dialectal, uncountable A newcomer or arrival; an incomer.
countable, obsolete, uncountable An entrance-fee.
archaic, countable, uncountable A coming in as by influx or inspiration, hence, an inspired quality or characteristic, as courage or zeal; an inflowing principle. I would then make in indeed and steep / My income in their bloods.
Scotland, UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable A disease or ailment without known or apparent cause, as distinguished from one induced by accident or contagion; an oncome.
countable, uncountable That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food.

Opposite: outgo

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: wages, earnings, taxable, salary, revenue, turnover, remuneration, taxation, tax, monetary, taxpayer, wage, cash, pay, profit, output

noun

Opposite: outgo

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noun money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others

Español	ingreso, renta, ingresos
한국어	소득 sodeuk, 수입 su'ip
日本語	所得 shotoku, 収入 shūnyū
中文	收入 shōurù
हिन्दी	आय āy, आमदनी āmadnī, कमाई kamāī
Kiswahili	mapato
Português	renda, rendimento
Français	revenu, recette
Deutsch	Einkommen
Italiano	introiti, reddito
Ελληνικά	εισόδημα eisódima, έσοδα ésoda
Română	venit
Русский	дохо́д doxód, прихо́д prixód, при́быль príbylʹ, за́работок zárabotok, поступле́ния postuplénija
Tiếng Việt	thu nhập
العربية	دَخْل daḵl, إِيرَاد ʔīrād
עברית	הַכְנָסָה hakhnasá

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@misc{income_2026,
  title = {income},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/income},
  urldate = {2026-11-05}
}