Collocations for "income"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "income" in context.
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income
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [respectable, high] income
- [an annual, a monthly, a regular] income
- your [household, taxable] income
- [retirement, investment] income
- am on a fixed income
- their operating income
- income from [sales, residuals, capital gains]
- receives an income from
- still gets an income from
- [makes, has] a side income
- will generate a [generous, healthy] income
- has an income of [$60,000]
- find a new [source, stream] of income
- a [fall, drop, rise] in income
- your income and expenses
- income versus expenses
- a [high, low] income bracket
- low-income [housing, families, assistance]
- pay your income tax
- income [support, augmentation]
- the income distribution
'income' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
account
- adjust
- aggregate
- amount
- annual
- assistance
- assured
- average
- beef
- benefit
- blessed
- ceiling
- collect
- deduct
- deferred
- deploy
- disposable
- dive
- double
- earnings
- endowment
- enjoyment
- equal
- exempt
- expenditure
- export
- fair
- figure
- fixed
- floating
- flow
- generate
- generation
- gross
- guarantee
- hobby
- household
- housing
- individual
- inequality
- level
- leverage
- live
- low
- mean
- middle
- mining
- moderate
- modest
- net