revenue
IPA: rˈɛvʌnu
noun
- 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.
- (UK) The Inland Revenue, formed in 1849 and dissolved in 2005 to form part of HMRC.
- 2005, Tax Cases Reported Under the Direction of the Board of Inland Revenue (with Notes of Argument Prepared by the Law Reporters to the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales), The Stationery Office, page 391:
verb
- (intransitive) To generate revenue.
- (transitive) To supply with revenue.
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Examples of "revenue" in Sentences
- The state expects to receive $1.2 billion in revenue from the delay of a corporate tax break.
- The comments seem to be suggesting why not tax capital if the reduction in revenue is made up by increased taxes on wages.
- This year Proactiv's licensee and distributor, Guthy-Renker, will collect roughly $800 million in revenue from the acne treatment -- its runaway bestseller.
- Does the amount of stimulus spent this year & the loss in revenue from the Making Work Pay cut completely counteract the increase in GDP over what was projected because of the stimulus?
- It seems to me that it would be worth it to Tacoma's schools and other government functions that the state raise that $200 million plus in revenue from a sales tax increase. poliTICKLING
- Nvidia may have reported a loss of $201.3 million for its fiscal 2010 first quarter after the markets closed yesterday, and a 42 percent drop in revenue from the same period a year ago, but the company still has quite a few things going for it.
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