Definition of income
- n. - A coming in; entrance; admittance; ingress; infusion.
- n. - That which is caused to enter; inspiration; influence;
hence, courage or zeal imparted.
- n. - 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.
- n. - 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.