# income

Pronunciation: say "IN-kum" /ˈɪnˌkʌm/

## Noun

1. Money that a person, household or organization receives, especially regularly, from work, business, investments or other sources.
   - Simple: Money that a person or group gets, for example from a job, a business or savings.
   - _Their household income rose after she took a second job._
   - _Rental properties can provide a steady income without daily work._

## Noun

2. Someone who has recently moved into a community from elsewhere; an incomer. *(archaic, Scotland)*
   - Simple: A person who has just arrived or moved into a place.
3. An inflowing of inspiration; an inspired quality such as courage or zeal. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: Inspiration flowing into someone, or a quality such as courage or enthusiasm that it brings.
4. The act of entering, arriving, or being introduced. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: An act of coming in or arriving somewhere.
5. A fee paid on entering; an entrance-fee. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: A fee you pay to enter or join something.

## Other meanings

- (noun) What is taken into the body as food, sometimes only the nourishing or digestible part of it.
- (noun) A disease or ailment arising without known or apparent cause, unlike one caused by injury or infection.

## Origin

Already income in Middle English, it may be Old English incyme ("an in-coming, entrance") in an altered form, made up of in- and come. Dutch inkomen, German Einkommen, Danish indkomst and Swedish inkomst are relatives, all meaning "income."

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/income (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).