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revenue
[ rev-uhn-yoo, -uh-noo ]
noun
- the income of a government from taxation, excise duties, customs, or other sources, appropriated to the payment of the public expenses.
- the government department charged with the collection of such income.
- revenues, the collective items or amounts of income of a person, a state, etc.
- the return or yield from any kind of property, patent, service, etc.; income.
- an amount of money regularly coming in.
- a particular item or source of income.
revenue
/ ˈrɛvɪˌnjuː /
noun
- the income accruing from taxation to a government during a specified period of time, usually a year
- a government department responsible for the collection of government revenue
- ( as modifier )
revenue men
- the gross income from a business enterprise, investment, property, etc
- a particular item of income
- something that yields a regular financial return; source of income
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Derived Forms
- ˈreveˌnued, adjective
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Other Words From
- rev·e·nu·al [rev, -, uh, n-yoo-, uh, l, -, uh, -noo-, ri-, ven, -yoo-], adjective
- reve·nued adjective
- non·reve·nue adjective noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of revenue1
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Example Sentences
Yes, publicizing tragedy gets clicks, gets ad revenue, gets notoriety, and can be done for all the wrong reasons.
It not only generates revenue, but it decimates communities.
In their effort to diversify their revenue, they have capitalized on traditional practices to new advantage.
The Cuban government siphons off revenue from nearly every business transaction in the country.
Just wanted to place it in the context of slates needing picture choices that throw off revenue to make the numbers work.
The seed of the Nile in many waters, the harvest of the river is her revenue: and she is become the mart of the nations.
All this was but an incident, to be sure, in the minister's general scheme for "ameliorating the revenue."
It may be that the Spanish authorities regarded the West Indian trade as a commercial system rather than as a means of revenue.
The revenue fox such a civil list would naturally be raised in America.
Trade and commerce drooped daily, and the revenue melted away rapidly every year.
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