incomeless
Definition
- Adjective:
- Lacking income: "incomeless" describes a person, household, or entity that does not have any source of income, earnings, or revenue.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- The incomeless family struggled to pay for basic necessities. (The family had no earnings.)
- Many incomeless individuals rely on government assistance programs. (People without income depend on aid.)
- The business remained incomeless for its first year of operation. (The business generated no revenue.)
Advanced Usage
"incomeless period": a specific duration during which no income is earned.
- After losing his job, he faced a long incomeless period before finding new work. (A stretch of time with no earnings.)
"incomeless status": the condition of being without income.
- The report highlighted the increasing incomeless status of certain rural communities. (The condition of having no income.)
Variants and Related Words
- Income (noun): money received, especially on a regular basis, from work, investments, or property.
- Her primary income comes from teaching. (Money earned from work.)
- Incomelessness (noun): the state of having no income.
- The charity aims to reduce incomelessness among the elderly. (The condition of being without income.)
Synonyms
- Poverty-stricken: extremely poor, lacking financial resources.
- Broke: having no money (informal).
- Penniless: having no money at all.
- Unemployed: not having a paid job (often implies no income from work).
Related Idioms
- Without a penny to one's name: having no money at all.
- After the bankruptcy, he was left without a penny to his name. (He became incomeless.)
- On the breadline: living in extreme poverty with barely enough to survive.
- Many incomeless families are on the breadline. (Living at the edge of poverty.)