incomenoun/ˈɪnˌkʌm/

• 1

  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.
  • In 1970 the richest 1 percent made 9 percent of the nation’s income; now that top slice makes closer to 25 percent.
• 2

  businesscommerceMoney coming in to a fund, account, or policy.

• 3

  obsoleteA coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction.

  • more abundant incomes of light and strength from God
  • Pain payes the income of ech precious thing,
• 4

  archaicdialectalA newcomer or arrival; an incomer.

• 5

  obsoleteAn entrance-fee.

• 6

  archaicA 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.
• 7

  dialectalA disease or ailment without known or apparent cause, as distinguished from one induced by accident or contagion; an oncome.

• 8

  That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food.