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noun

Income n.

1.

A coming in; entrance; admittance; ingress; infusion. (Obs.) "More abundant incomes of light and strength from God." "At mine income I louted low."

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."

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."

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.

Synonyms: Gain; profit; proceeds; salary; revenue; receipts; interest; emolument; produce.

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... success. I know what I already possess, and what more I need, and though my progress to fame may be slow, and take many long years, yet after a year's tuition I shall be able to command a comfortable income in return for ...

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... watch brought his telescope to bear ahead. He was a junior lieutenant, Bourne by name, and in receipt of a private income of eight hundred a year. On that sum he might have lived the life of a man of leisure, but he vastly preferred a strenuous life as a commissioned officer in the Royal Navy. Not once had he regretted his choice, and upon the outbreak of war he was ready to execute a hornpipe of sheer ...

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... reverse of yours. You are unexpectedly rich; and I am unexpectedly poor. My aunt's fortune was to have been my fortune, if I outlived her. She has been ruined by the failure of a bank. In her old age, she must live on an income of two hundred a year—and I must get my own living when I ...

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