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rev·enue (rev′ə no̵̅o̅′, -nyo̵̅o̅′)

noun

  1. the return from property or investment; income
    1. an item or source of income
    2. items or amounts of income collectively, as of a nation
  3. the income from taxes, licenses, etc., as of a city, state, or nation
  4. the governmental service that collects certain taxes

Etymology: ME < MFr < fem. pp. of revenir, to return, come back < re-, back + venir < L venire, to come

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Alternate definitions:

business revenue definition - business

finance revenue definition - finance

law revenue definition - legal

revenue Synonyms

revenue

n.

  1. Income

    return, earnings, result, yield, wealth, receipts, proceeds, resources, funds, stocks, credits, dividends, interest, perquisites, salary, profits, means, fruits, emoluments, annuity, acquirements, rents; see also income, pay 1, 2.

    Antonyms expenses*, outgoes, obligations.

  2. Governmental income

    wealth, revenue, taxation; see income, tax 1.

    Types of revenue include: direct tax, indirect tax, bonds, loans, customs, duties, tariff, tax surcharge, excise, property tax, income tax, sales tax, inheritance and death tax, land tax, poll tax, gasoline tax, school tax, franchise, license, grants, rates, bridge and road tolls, harbor dues, countervailing duties, differential duties, special taxation, patent stamps, stamp duties, registration duties, internal revenue, tax on spirits, tobacco tax, lease of land, sale of land, subsidy, capital gains, dividends.


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revenue Usage Examples

Possessives

  • sportingbet: It's uncertain which sportingbet's revenues come he added.

Converse of object

  • generate: You may not submit Postings intended to promote and or generate revenue for yourself and or any third party business activity.

Adjective modifier

  • lost: That fact, combined with his three-day, money-back guarantee, has resulted in lots of unauthorized copying and lost revenue, he says.

Modifies a noun

  • stream: Revenue stream by want to operate to shop around.

Noun used with modifier

  • advertising: Northcliffe's advertising revenues for the five months to February 2005 were 6.8 % ahead of the comparable period last year.
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revenue quotes

[Alexander Hamilton] smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the public credit, and it sprang upon its feet.

-Webster, Daniel

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