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Dreyfus Floating Rate Income Fund
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Supplement [Text Block]	ck0000819940_SupplementTextBlock	July 24, 2014 THE DREYFUS/LAUREL FUNDS, INC. - Dreyfus Floating Rate Income Fund Supplement to Prospectus dated September 23, 2013
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Strategy Narrative [Text Block]	rr_StrategyNarrativeTextBlock	The following information will supersede and replace the last sentence in the first paragraph in “Fund Summary — Principal Investment Strategy” and the first sentence of the second paragraph in “Fund Details – Goal and Approach” in the prospectus: The fund currently intends to invest principally in floating rate loans and other floating rate securities of U.S. issuers, but may invest up to 30% of its net assets in securities of foreign issuers, typically those located in foreign countries that are members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Principal investment strategies of the Fund. Summarize how the Fund intends to achieve its investment objectives by identifying the Fund's principal investment strategies (including the type or types of securities in which the Fund invests or will invest principally) and any policy to concentrate in securities of issuers in a particular industry or group of industries.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

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