revenue

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The income returned by an investment.

   In the seventh series of The X Factor in the UK, it's estimated the phone votes brought in more than £5.4 million in revenue.

2. 2
   noun

   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.”

3. 3
   name

   The Inland Revenue, formed in 1849 and dissolved in 2005 to form part of HMRC.

   A body corporate is an entity with a legal personality of its own. The Revenue does not treat a Scottish partnership as a body corporate even though it has separate legal personality.

4. 4
   noun

   the entire amount of income before any deductions are made

5. 5
   noun

   government income due to taxation

6. 6
   noun

   The total income received from a given source.

7. 7
   noun

   All income generated for some political entity's treasury by taxation and other means.

8. 8
   noun

   The total sales; turnover.

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”).