Word Finder - income

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Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others.

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Money coming in to a fund, account, or policy.

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A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction.

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A newcomer or arrival; an incomer.

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An entrance-fee.

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A coming in as by influx or inspiration, hence, an inspired quality or characteristic, as courage or zeal; an inflowing principle.

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A disease or ailment without known or apparent cause, as distinguished from one induced by accident or contagion; an oncome.

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That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food.

This income will not be regarded as welfare.

He had a good income and access to his father's equipment.

Despite Count Bezukhov's enormous wealth, since he had come into an income which was said to amount to five hundred thousand rubles a year, Pierre felt himself far poorer than when his father had made him an allowance of ten thousand rubles.

There will be so much wealth that a minimum income will be guaranteed to everyone.

Countries whose average income is $1,500 tax at 20 percent.

Or these jobs can be divorced from economic realities, as the struggling painter or actor decides simply to do what he loves and live off the minimum income afforded by this planet-wide prosperity.

At the same time, the percent of income we individually have to spend on feeding ourselves plummeted as well.

Just half a century ago, Americans on average spent more than 20 percent of their income on food.

The price of Italian consolidated 5% (gross, 4% net, allowing for the 20% income tax) stock, which is the security most largely negotiated abroad, and used in settling differences between large financial institutions, has steadily risen during recent years.

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; maybe you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.

You expect to make an income out of the government?

His income would be reduced by three fourths, but he felt it must be done.

This is simply returning to the people a portion of income from land that is publicly owned.

She was the one who wanted Alex to make the decisions - and the goat dairy had never been more than an income to her.

In societies where a large percentage of income is necessary just to buy food, having volatile food prices will mean hunger sooner or later, no matter how good the factory jobs are.

Food in the United States is so inexpensive as a percentage of national income that it literally is a throwaway item.

Income from land has diminished on the whole.

The public schools are supported by the income from a Federal grant of 2,000,000 acres of public land (given in lieu of the usual sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections) supplemented by state and local taxation.

I describe these three situations because each, in its own way, illustrates how I think the future will play out regarding income and wealth.

Once technology allowed for the recording and sale of records, their income shot way up—they could use technology to magnify their ability.

In the United States, you could do it via the tax code, with government only acting as an income redistribution agent but not as a food distributor.

It seems that we can afford to spend more on government as income rises.

Taxable revenue corresponds to two-thirds of actual income from factories and to three-fourths of actual income from houses; it is ascertained by the agents of the financial administration.

It is proportional, and is collected by deduction from salaries and pensions paid to servants of the state, where it is assessed on three-eighths of the income, and from interest on consolidated stock, where it is assessed on the whole amount; and by register in the cases of private individuals, who pay on three-fourths of their income, professional men, capitalists or manufacturers, who pay on one-half or nine-twentieths of their income.

The President was insistent upon the need of repealing the excess profits taxes and reducing transportation taxes and income surtaxes.

This greatly reduced his income for a number of years.

The state owned, in 1909, 30,002 shares of stock in the North Carolina Railroad Company,' with a market value (1907) of $5,580,372 (the stock being quoted at 186), and an annual income of $210,014 and 12,666 shares of stock in the Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad Company, from which the annual income is $31,665.

The Rev. Albert Clayton, the secretary of the fund, lavished his strength on his vast task and the total income exceeded I, 073,782.

The cost of study is a significant disincentive for students from lower income background.

The remainder is, of course, not disposable income that can be shifted from one place to another.

In two-thirds of Zambian families where the father died, monthly disposable income fell by more than 80% .

For example, there is no corporate income tax on retained earnings.

In addition to a large income from rentals, the Santa Casa receives the product of certain port taxes in return for opening its wards to the crews of all vessels in port.

Yet the whole of his income after resigning office did not exceed .ioo a year.

For a while interest charges consumed 85% of the income of the government.

The Pennsylvania state college at State College, Center county, was established in 1855 as the farmers' high school of Pennsylvania, in 1862 became the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania, and received its present name in 1874 after the income from the national land grant had been appropriated to the use of the institutions; in1909-1910it had 147 instructors, 1400 students and a library of 37,000 volumes.

Finally, the popes have devoted to the missions the income arising from the Chamber of Spoils (Camera Spoliorum), i.e.

Moreover, after the knight's liability to personal service in war had been modified in the 12th century by the scutage system, it became necessary in the first quarter of the r3th to compel landowners to take up the knighthood which in theory they should have coveted as an honour - a compulsion which was soon systematically enforced (Distraint of Knighthood, 1278), and became a recognized source of royal income.

The knighthood of St Maurice and St Lazarus is now a dignity conferred by the king of Italy (the grand master) on persons distinguished in the public service, science, art and letters, trade, and above all in charitable works, to which its income is devoted.

The yearly income of Zuniga at the time of his resignation amounted to 150,000 ducats.

Thirty years later its income was £ 200,000 a year; and now it is £300,000.

For in them the dead are not counted; and the converts who are already dead are-at least in respect of individual salvation-the surest of III.-Protestant Missionary Income.

Although pressed by the minister to prepare for them a complete course of mathematics, he declined to do so, on the ground that it would deprive Mme Bezout of her only income, from the sale of the works of her late husband; he wrote, however (1786), his Traite elementaire de la statique.

He settled finally in Edinburgh in 1769, having now through his pension and otherwise an income of £1000 a year.

The breeding of livestock (cattle, sheep and horses), is an important source of income.

This state of matters was so clearly proved that an arrangement was agreed to on the part of the vicar (Dance), by which he allowed £60 a year, out of his income X200, to a preacher who should be chosen by certain trustees.

The change, though it brought promotion in dignity, caused a diminution of income as well as of power; but Coke received some compensation in being appointed a member of the privy council.

Thus they became transferable to laymen and saleable like ordinary property, in spite of the injunctions of the third Lateran Council, and they became payable out of sources of income which were not originally tithable.

The income of the forty establishments was, in 903, 1/28,500,000 (including 1,700,000 imperial subsidy).

It may be added that employees in mercantile and trading houses, who have not exceeded the age of 40 years and whose income is below 1/215o, are allowed voluntarily to share in the benefits of this insurance.