Revenue
name, noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 The income returned by an investment. countable, uncountable
"In the seventh series of The X Factor in the UK, it's estimated the phone votes brought in more than £5.4 million in revenue."
- 2 the entire amount of income before any deductions are made wordnet
- 3 The total income received from a given source. countable, uncountable
- 4 government income due to taxation wordnet
- 5 All income generated for some political entity's treasury by taxation and other means. countable, uncountable
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- 6 The total sales; turnover. countable, uncountable
- 7 The net income from normal business operations; net sales. countable, uncountable
- 8 A return; something paid back. countable, figuratively, uncountable
"a. 1892, Charles Spurgeon, a sermon What, no revenue of praise for him who is our gracious Lord and King! He doth not exact from us any servile labor, but simply saith, “Who so offereth praise glorifieth me.”"
- 1 To generate revenue. intransitive
- 2 To supply with revenue. transitive
- 1 The Inland Revenue, formed in 1849 and dissolved in 2005 to form part of HMRC. UK
"A body corporate is an entity with a legal personality of its own. The Revenue does not treat a Scottish partnership as a body corporate even though it has separate legal personality."
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More examples"The administration cannot but look for alternative sources of revenue."
Etymology
Recorded in English from 1433, "income from property or possessions", from Middle French revenue, from Old French [Term?] (“a return”) (modern French revenu), the prop. feminine past participle of revenir (“come back”) (=modern French), from Latin revenire (“to return, come back”), from re- (“back”) + venire (“to come”).
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