income]
CDD (1877-79) offers a distinctly middle-class definition of
"Incomes" as "the profits which accrue to any one from property, office, or
employment. The word income, therefore, includes earnings, wages, salaries,
gains from trade, property, &c. Strictly speaking, a man's income is not
coincident with receipts, but is really what remains after deductions for
stock and conducting business arrangements; in other words, income is profit"
(641). By contrast, Lady Bracknell is asking about the gross figure derived
from either investments or land, as her next question indicates.
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