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 ad revenues are totally anemic.
- Its expenditure far outstrips the revenue.
- The executors dispute the claim of the revenue.
- It relates to the foregone property tax revenue.
- This increased the revenues and decreased the fraud.
- That person then receives the majority of the accrued revenue.
- Revenue is income that a company receives from its business activities.
- The monthly stipend and most of tourist revenue go in the tribes cash box.
- The amount of revenue ordinarily differs from the amount of deferred revenue.
- It is possible to redistribute personal income tax revenue between the state and local governments.
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