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INCOME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("income" is a kind of...):
financial gain (the amount of monetary gain)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "income"):
disposable income (income (after taxes) that is available to you for saving or spending)
double dipping (two incomes received from the same source (as by holding a government job and receiving a government pension))
easy money; gravy train (income obtained with a minimum of effort)
Earnings Before Interest Taxes Depreciation and Amortization; EBITDA (income before interest and taxes and depreciation and amortization have been subtracted; an indicator of a company's profitability that is watched by investors (especially in leveraged buyouts))
earnings; lucre; net; net income; net profit; profit; profits (the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses))
cash flow (the excess of cash revenues over cash outlays in a give period of time (not including non-cash expenses))
personal income (the income received by a single individual)
rental income (income received from rental properties)
issue; payoff; proceeds; return; take; takings; yield (the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property)
gross revenue; gross sales; sales (income (at invoice values) received for goods and services over some given period of time)
net sales (gross sales reduced by customer discounts, returns, freight out, and allowances)
unearned income; unearned revenue ((accounting) income received but not yet earned (usually considered a current liability on a company's balance sheet))
unearned income; unearned revenue (personal income that you did not earn (e.g., dividends or interest or rent income))
government income; government revenue (income available to the government)
per capita income (the total national income divided by the number of people in the nation)
Antonym:
outgo (money paid out; an amount spent)
Context examples:
“For many women and girls in low- and middle-income settings, it’s impossible to forget – globally they spend a collective 200 million hours collecting water every day,” she says.
(Slightly dirty water ‘still ok’ against coronavirus, SciDev.Net)
Salmonella is especially harmful in lower-income countries.
(Protective bio-shell could extend egg shelf life, SciDev.Net)
A new study finds that infants and toddlers in low-income communities may be even more at risk from second -hand smoke exposure than has been thought.
(Infants, Toddlers at More Risk from Exposure to Second-Hand Smoke than Thought, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A social unit comprised of one or more individuals living together (all of whom need not be related) in the same dwelling, who aggregate and share their incomes.
(Household, NCI Thesaurus)
A group or agency that gives legal help to people with low incomes.
(Legal aid organization, NCI Dictionary)
The fraction of a population whose income is less than that considered sufficient for survival.
(Percent Below Poverty, NCI Thesaurus)
Of or relating to the activity or business by which a person earns income.
(Occupational, NCI Thesaurus)
A joint federal and state program that provides assistance with healthcare costs to people with low income and limited resources.
(Medicaid, NCI Thesaurus)
But only 4 per cent of populations in low-income countries had access to dialysis or transplantation compared to 60 per cent in high-income countries.
(Managing diabetes key to lowering kidney disease, SciDev.Net)
However, low- and middle-income countries cannot afford to routinely use modern sequencing platforms to carry out this molecular classification.
(New method to classify brain tumour in children, SciDev.Net)
