revenue

B2 Topic:Economics & Markets

US /ˈɹɛvəˌn(j)u/ UK /ˈɹɛvənjuː/ See IPA manual

Freq #10520

Meanings

1

noun
The money a business or organization earns from its activities.

The company's revenue grew by ten percent last year.
2

noun
The money a government receives from taxes and other sources.

Tax revenue funds schools, roads, and hospitals.

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Synonyms

2 noun · the money a government... taxation

More turnover

Word family

Forms revenues

Derived forms non-revenuenonrevenuepetrorevenuerevenualrevenuerunrevenued

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internal revenue
government income raised within a country rather than through customs duties

Adjective + noun

Simplified etymology

Revenue comes from Old French revenu(e), meaning “returned,” ultimately from Latin revenire, “to return,” formed from re- “back” and venire “come.” After a rare sense of returning to a place, it chiefly denoted the yield from land or property.

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”).

*gʷem- Proto-Indo-European

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Economics & Markets Business & Commerce

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# revenue

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B2
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈɹɛvəˌn(j)u/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈɹɛvənjuː/
**Frequency rank:** 10520

## Meanings
1. The money a business or organization earns from its activities.
2. The money a government receives from taxes and other sources.

## Examples
- The company's revenue grew by ten percent last year.
- Tax revenue funds schools, roads, and hospitals.

## Synonyms
- turnover

## Derived Forms
- non-revenue
- nonrevenue
- petrorevenue
- revenual
- revenuer
- unrevenued

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *gʷem-

## 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”).

## AI Etymology
Revenue 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”). Modern senses include the money a business or organization earns from its activities. and the money a government receives from taxes and other sources.. The wider word family includes derivatives such as non-revenue, nonrevenue, petrorevenue, revenual, revenuer, and unrevenued.

## Topics
- Economics & Markets
- Business & Commerce

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