English Explanatory Dictionary

revenue

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The income returned by an investment.
  2. The total income received from a given source.
  3. All income generated for some political entity's treasury by taxation and other means.
  4. The total sales; turnover.
  5. The net income from normal business operations; net sales.
  6. A return; something paid back.
verb
  1. To generate revenue.
  2. To supply with revenue.
name
  1. The Inland Revenue, formed in 1849 and dissolved in 2005 to form part of HMRC.

Pronunciation

/ˈɹɛvənjuː/ rĕvʹə-n(y)o͞oʹ /ˈɹɛvəˌn(j)u/ en-us-revenue.ogg /ɹɪˈvɛnjuː/

Word forms

revenue revenues revenuing revenued the 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”).

Synonyms

net sales turnover

Derived words

daily average revenue trades inland revenue non-revenue nonrevenue petrorevenue revenual revenue act revenue bill Revenue Canada revenue cutter revenue ensign revenue land revenue management revenuer revenue raising revenue recognition revenue sharing grant revenue stamp tax revenue total revenue unrevenued
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