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income

/ˈɪnˌkʌm/ noun B1
  1. Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others. (countable, uncountable)
  2. Money coming in to a fund, account, or policy. (countable, uncountable)
  3. That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food. (countable, uncountable)

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Having now a good house and a very sufficient income, he intended to marry; and in seeking a reconciliation with the Longbourn family he had a wife in view, as he meant to choose one of the daughters, if he found them as handsome and amiable as they were represented by common report.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 77 · B2
The Miss Webbs all play, and their father has not so good an income as yours.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 191 · B2
Choose properly, choose a gentlewoman for _my_ sake, and for your _own_; let her be an active, useful sort of person, not brought up high, but able to make a small income go a good way.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 122 · B2
_They_ will take care not to outrun their income.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 258 · B2

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