net income

noun

1. the excess of revenues and gains of a business over expenses and losses during a given period of time.

Word History and Origins

Origin of net income¹

First recorded in 1760–70

Example Sentences

Net income over that time frame rose 24 percent to $109.9 million.

From The Daily Beast

In the fiscal year that ended in July, Molex had sales of $3.6 billion and net income of $243 million.

From The Daily Beast

That pushed net income down to $1.164 billion, a decline of 66 percent in one year.

From The Daily Beast

After paying $149 million in income taxes, it was left with net income of $219 million.

From The Daily Beast

According to Chafets, Ailes donates some 10 percent of his net income to charities.

From The Daily Beast

This effort to discover and record the net income from land was a failure.

From Project Gutenberg

The schools began to improve at once, and the net income was never again as small as under the carpet-bag rgime.

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Speaking broadly, the former consist in securing the largest net income, the latter in securing the largest gross product.

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This must be done each year until the net income from the farm is greater than the interest account.

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Suppose there was only a profit of three cents a gallon on that, it would have meant net income of $707.10.

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