Income - the money that you earn from your work or that you receive from investments, the government etc:

on a ... income (=earning a particular amount), high/low income, to bring in a good income, to expect a fairly high income, to live beyond one’s income;

People on a high income should pay more tax. His annual income is £250,000. I'd love to know what his income is. He has so many new clothes and such an expensive car. The whole family survives on the mother's monthly income of less than £500.

to deal with (dealt) – 1) to take the necessary action, especially in order to solve a problem:

to deal with a problem, to deal with printers (recycling, the income of a business);

Don't worry, I'll deal with this. They should deal properly and fairly with any complaint. I hope you dealt with everything at work while I was away. There’s just to much information to deal with.

2) if a book, speech etc deals with a particular subject, it is about that subject:

These ideas are dealt with more fully in Chapter Four.

3) to do business with someone or have a business connection with someone:

Most travel agents do not deal directly with these companies.

4) to succeed in controlling your feelings about an emotional problem so that it does not affect your life, synonym cope with:

How's he dealing with the whole thing?

temporary - continuing for only a limited period of time, opposite permanent:

temporary pain relief, temporary work (job, position, post), temporary employees (workers, staff) (=employed for only a limited time), to find (look for) a temporary job;

I'm living with my parents, but it's only temporary. She was employed on a temporary basis. Ben's found a temporary job until November. I'm sure this is only a temporary problem. There are always plenty of temporary workers available during the summer months.

permanent - continuing to exist for a long time or for all the time in the future, opposite temporary:

to hope for a permanent position, to offer a permanent job;

He gave up a permanent job in order to freelance. Only five of the firm's employees are permanent. The car accident has caused permanent damage to her eyesight. Temporary employees rarely have the same rights and benefits as permanent staff.

permanently - to work permanently.

to get by - to have enough money to buy the things you need, but no more, synonym manage:

to get by on one salary;

I don't earn a huge salary, but we get by. Sometimes they had to get by on very little. Somehow they manage to get by on $800 a month. I can barely get by on $ 60, 000 a year.

to do for a living – to do as a job:

What do you do for a living? All the way along, of course, I wondered what I would eventually do for a living. FreeI.net doesn't care about your name, your address, your age, or what you do for a living. I don't know what you do for a living but you obviously don't know much about the real world. It's what I do for a living.

to be in control – to have the power to make the decisions about how a country, place, company etc is organized or what it does:

to be in control (of something), to be in control of the project;

Anti-government forces are still in control of the area.

to gain – 1) to obtain or achieve something you want or need:

to gain control (power, a degree, qualification, strength, time);

After gaining independence in 1957, it was renamed 'Ghana' It took her a long time to gain enough confidence to speak in public.