income

Definition

  • noun: money that is earned from work, investments, business, etc.
  • noun: a coming in
  • synonyms: proceeds, profit, interest

Examples

  • a two-'income' family [=a family in which both adults have jobs that provide income]

  • Even on two 'incomes', we're having a hard time keeping up with our bills.

  • The new law will lower 'income taxes' for most taxpayers.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) just quitting your job like that? Well, I guess when you're all of, what, ... Eighteen. I just do these gigs as a cover. I have other sources of income. But my dad interferes less in my life when I pretend... to be an upstanding young citizen with a respectable job. Lester? (..)
    1999 American Beauty