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/nɛt ˈɪnkˌəm/ Listen

Net income

noun

The excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses). Synonyms: earnings, lucre, net, net profit, profit, profits.

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"Net income" Quotes from Famous Books

... net income, or financial results are available, the fragmentary records make it obvious that the business continued to flourish beyond World War I, and long after the passage of the first Food and Drug Act—in 1906. ...

— History of the Comstock Patent Medicine Business and Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills • Robert B. Shaw

... It is a fact that we can make lots of pork on the gleanings of a sweet potato field. And besides that these trees, each one of them, will bring me four, to five, or six dollars' worth of nuts. That land cost me sixteen dollars an acre, and there is a net income of several dollars above the price of the land, and I presume there is an individual growth on each tree that increases its value at least four or five dollars worth of nuts. There you see I have several dollars' ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifth Annual Meeting - Evansville, Indiana, August 20 and 21, 1914 • Various

... dollars a year is a conservative estimate for the net income from such a plant, and the original investment, exclusive of residence, will not be over one ...

— The Dollar Hen • Milo M. Hastings

Words linked to "Net income" : part, gross profit, killing, gross profit margin, percentage, filthy lucre, profits, income, margin, dividend, earning per share, windfall profit, markup, fast buck, share, quick buck, portion, accumulation, cleanup