income /ˈɪnˌkʌm/ noun8 •an amount of money that someone is paid for work, or gets from property or a business they ownIn 1970 the richest 1 percent made 9 percent of the nation’s income; now that top slice makes closer to 25 percent. — 2010 •Money coming in to a fund, account, or policy. •That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food. •(dialect, UK) A disease or ailment without known or apparent cause, as distinguished from one induced by accident or contagion; an oncome. •(no longer used) A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction. •(no longer used) 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. — 1611 •(dialect, no longer used) A newcomer or arrival; an incomer. •(no longer used) An entrance-fee. formsincomes