income

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A worker with nowhere to hide his or her income is always the first and hardest hit.

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  1. noun The amount of money or its equivalent received during a period of time in exchange for labor or services, from the sale of goods or property, or as profit from financial investments.
  2. noun The act of coming in; entrance.

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  • A worker with nowhere to hide his or her income is always the first and hardest hit. —  Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • "A single person can get some of the pension and a range of other concessions when their income is about $770 a week", Maree O'Halloran, director of the Welfare Rights Centre, told the —  Green Left Weekly issue #746
  • But if your income is above a certain amount, you may no longer qualify for some of the plans. —  News from www.rep-am.com
  • Households saved more only in December but then average per capita income was about 100 leva higher. —  SofiaEcho RSS feed
  • Strict guidelines need to be in place. 25\% of your income should be the max you spend on a house including taxes & insurance. —  Hot Air » Top Picks
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  1. Middle English, arrival, entrance, from incomen, to come in, from Old English incuman : in, in; see in1 + cuman, to come; see come.

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  1. from Middle English income = Dutch inkomen = German einkommen (in sense 6) = Icelandic inn-kvāma, income; cf. Dutch inkomst = Danish indkomst = Swedish inkomst (in sense 6); as in- + come.
 

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/ˈɪnkəm/
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