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Living vs Income - What's the difference?

living | income |

As nouns the difference between living and income

is that living is (uncountable) the state of being alive while income is money]] one earns by working or by [[capitalise|capitalising on the work of others.

As a verb living

is .

As an adjective living

is having life.

living

English

(wikipedia living)

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Having life.
  • * :
    • It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.
  • In use or existing.
    • Hunanese is a living language.
  • Of everyday life.
    • These living conditions are deplorable.
  • True to life.
    • This is the living image of Fidel Castro.
    • He almost beat the living daylights out of me.

    Antonyms

    * dead * nonliving

    Derived terms

    * living death * living end * livingly * living room * living thing * living will

    Related terms

    * live, life * alive

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The state of being alive.
  • Financial means; a means of maintaining life; livelihood
    • What do you do for a living ?
  • A style of life.
    • plain living
  • (canon law) A position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source of income. The holder of the position receives its revenue for the performance of stipulated duties.

    • Derived terms

    * make a living

    Statistics

    * English intensifiers

    income

    English

    (wikipedia income)

    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.

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