net income

Questions about net income

What does net income mean?

net income means "the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)".

What is another word for net income?

Close synonyms include net, net profit, lucre, profit, profits. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is net income a common word?

net income is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.