revenue

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The money a business or organization earns from its activities.

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

2. 2
   noun

   The money a government receives from taxes and other sources.

   Tax revenue funds schools, roads, and hospitals.

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”).

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