{
  "id": "income.financial",
  "term": "income",
  "sense": "financial",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 17,
  "arena": "income",
  "domain": "economic",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "money that is received from work",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "money.economic",
      "work.effort",
      "receive.communication"
    ],
    "interaction": "work exerts effort and money is received through that process, forming income",
    "novel_properties": [
      "receipt of economic resource",
      "result of labor compensation",
      "flow from effort to reward"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, a software engineer at Google received $180,000 in salary for developing Android features.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Nile River floodplain agriculture in ancient Egypt yielded grain surpluses collected as tax-in-kind by pharaohs.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "A nurse in Helsinki earned €3,200 monthly from shift work at Mehiläinen Hospital in 2022.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "money.economic",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "rent.income"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "income",
    "incomes"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added receive.communication as it is essential in the process described by the definition and interaction; the original record omitted a core aspect of the emergent mechanism."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-income.financial"
}