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

(-)

money; riches; gain; especially when dishonestly acquired (compare lucre)

* 1906 , Frederick Tatham, Life of Blake'' in Archibald George Blomefield Russell (ed.), ''The Letters of William Blake :

But, sighing after his fancies and visionary pursuits, he rebelled and fled fifty miles away for refuge from the lace caps and powdered wigs of his priggish sitters, and resumed his quaint dreams and immeasurable phantasies, never more to forsake them for pelf and portraiture.

* February 20, 2000 , Nick Cohen, Without prejudice , The Observer:

. . . a master manipulator who will twist and dodge around the clock to keep the privileges of power and pelf .

* July 20, 1997 , Harriet P. Gross, Author roots her stories in Vietnam War , Dallas Morning News:

She writes about those she might have known first-hand: teenage girls cowering in bunkers . . . friends making promises they can never keep . . . rich folk fattened on wartime pelf , poor folk surviving by wit alone.

* April 27, 1987 , Ford S. Worthy, You're Probably Working Too Hard , Fortune:

In advertising, show business, and journalism, people work themselves to the nub for glitz and glory more than for pelf .

* October 1968 , Nicholas von Hoffman, The Class of '43 Is Puzzled , The Atlantic:

Some of the rich classmates were keeping their pelf to themselves.