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income
What does income mean?
income (noun): the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you pronounce income?
/ˈɪnˌkʌm/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does income come from?
From Middle English income, perhaps continuing (in altered form) Old English incyme (“an in-coming, entrance”), equivalent to in- + come.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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