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revenue

Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛvənjuː/

The English word “revenue” has 8 meanings listed here.

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.

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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