Noun

(en noun)

Money]] one earns by working or by [[capitalise, capitalising on the work of others.

*, chapter=23

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs. Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground.}}

* 2010 Dec. 4, , " Why It’s Time to Worry", Newsweek (retrieved 16 June 2013):

In 1970 the richest 1 percent made 9 percent of the nation’s income ; now that top slice makes closer to 25 percent.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)

, volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Globalisation is about taxes too , passage=It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.}}

(label) A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction.

* Bishop Rust

more abundant incomes of light and strength from God

(Shakespeare)

A newcomer or arrival; an incomer.

(label) An entrance-fee.

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

* Chapman

I would then make in and steep / My income in their blood.

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

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

Noun

(en noun)

The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.

* Without the king's will or the state's allowance. --

Acknowledgment.

* The censure of the which one must in your allowance overweigh a whole theater of others. --

That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.

* I can give the boy a handsome allowance. -- .

Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.

* After making the largest allowance for fraud. -- .

(commerce) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.

A child's allowance; pocket money.

She gives her daughters each an allowance of thirty dollars a month.

(minting) A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.

(obsolete) approval; approbation

(Crabbe)

(obsolete) license; indulgence

(John Locke)