revenue
Meaning
-
- The income returned by an investment.
- The total income received from a given source.
- All income generated for some political entity's treasury by taxation and other means.
- The total sales; turnover.
- The net income from normal business operations; net sales.
- A return; something paid back.
Synonyms
yield
gross revenue
tax income
public revenues
annual income
land tax
tax yields
annual revenue
taxs
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɹɛvənjuː/
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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