income

noun

1. (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.”

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

   “It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.”

2. (countable, uncountable)Money coming in to a fund, account, or policy.
3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction.

   “more abundant incomes of light and strength from God”

   “Pain payes the income of ech precious thing,”

4. (Scotland, archaic, countable, dialectal, uncountable)A newcomer or arrival; an incomer.
5. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)An entrance-fee.
6. (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.”

7. (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.
8. (countable, uncountable)That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food.