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Definition of Income

Income

  1. A coming in; entrance; admittance; ingress; infusion.
  2. That which is caused to enter; inspiration; influence; hence, courage or zeal imparted.
  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.
  4. 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 Quotations

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Albert Einstein

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
Oscar Wilde

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.
Thomas Sowell

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
Barack Obama

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
George Bernard Shaw
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Income Translations

income in Danish is indkomst
income in Dutch is inkomen, ontvangst, opbrengst
income in Finnish is korko
income in French is rente, revenu
income in German is Einkommen
income in Italian is reddito
income in Norwegian is inntekt
income in Portuguese is renda
income in Spanish is redito
income in Swedish is inkomst, inkomster

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