revenue
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See also: 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”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹɛvənjuː/
- (General American) enPR: rĕvʹə-n(y)o͞oʹ, IPA(key): /ˈɹɛvəˌn(j)u/
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈvɛnjuː/
- Hyphenation (UK): rev‧en‧ue, (US): rev‧e‧nue, rev‧enue
In Early Modern English—e.g. in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries—stressed on the second syllable, as in the following iambic pentameter line:
Noun
revenue (countable and uncountable, plural revenues)
- 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.
- (accounting) The total sales; turnover.
- (accounting) The net income from normal business operations; net sales.
- (figurative) A return; something paid back.
- 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.”
- a. 1892, Charles Spurgeon, a sermon
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
income from an investment
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total income from a given source
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all income for some treasury by taxation e.a.
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turnover, total sales
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net sales — see net sales
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Verb
revenue (third-person singular simple present revenues, present participle revenuing, simple past and past participle revenued)
- (intransitive) To generate revenue.
- (transitive) To supply with revenue.
Anagrams
Etymology
From the verb revenir.
Pronunciation
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Noun
revenue f (plural revenues)
Participle
revenue f sg
Further reading
- “revenue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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