Revenue

English

Noun

Revenue (plural Revenues)

1. The income returned by an investment
2. The total income received from a given source
3. All income generated for some political entity's treasury by taxation and other means
4. (accounting) The total sales; turnover.
5. (accounting) The net revenue, net sales.

Synonyms

• (accounting): net sales, turnover

Derived terms

• revenuer
• revenue stamp

Adjectives for Revenue

confiscated; royal; overflowing; advertising; surplus; princely; accruing; requisite; gross; expected; present.

Verbs for Revenue

acquire—; apportion—; bear—; boost (colloq.)—; claim—; derive—; dissipate—; draw—; expend—; forfeit—; gain—; increase—; invest—; possess—; produce—; promise—; seek—; spend—; untie—; yield —; —accrues; —dribbles in.

Thesaurus

avails, box office, commissions, credit, credits, disposable income, dividend, dividends, earned income, earnings, gain, gains, gate, gate receipts, get, gross, gross income, gross receipts, income, intake, interest, make, net, net income, net receipts, output, proceeds, produce, profit, profits, receipt, receipts, receivables, returns, royalties, salary, take, take-in, takings, unearned income, wages, yield

Etymology

Recorded in English from 1433, "income from property or possessions", from Middle French revenue < from Old French "a return" (modern French 'revenu'), the prop. feminine past participle of revenir "come back" (=modern French) from Latin revenire "to return, come back", itself from re- "back" + venire "to come"

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Translations

income from an investment

Dutch: opbrengst (nl) Finnish: tuotto (fi) Portuguese: retorno (pt) m.

Scottish Gaelic: teachd-a-steach (gd) m. Spanish: retorno (es)

total income from a given source

Dutch: inkomen n. (uit ...) Finnish: tulo (fi), tulo (fi)

Scottish Gaelic: teachd-a-steach (gd) m.

all income for some treasury by taxation e.a.

Danish: skatteindtægt (da) c. Dutch: (staats-, overheid-....)inkomsten pl. Finnish: verokertymä, kokonaistulot (fi) pl. Greek: εισόδημα (el) n. (eisódima)

Japanese: 歳入 (さいにゅう, sainyū) Scottish Gaelic: teachd-a-steach (gd) m. Spanish: recaudación

net revenue — see net revenue

turnover, total sales

Czech: výnos (cs) m. Danish: indtægt (da) c. Dutch: omzet (nl) m.(cijfer) Finnish: tulot (fi), liikevaihto (fi), myyntitulo (fi) Greek: εισόδημα (el) n. (eisódima)

Japanese: 収益 (しゅうえき, shūeki) Russian: доход (ru) (doχód) m., выручка (ru) (výručka) f. Spanish: rédito (es) Swedish: omsättning (sv)-en

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Bulgarian: доход (dóχod) m. Mandarin: 收支 (shouzhi) Estonian: tulu French: revenu m. German: Einkommen n. Italian: reddito

Korean: 수익 Latin: vectigal Malay: Pendapatan Norwegian: inntekt Polish: dochód Portuguese: faturamento m.

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French

Noun

Revenue f. (plural Revenues)

1. A physical return; arrival
2. (hunting) The action of game leaving the forest to graze

Verb form

Revenue f.

1. Feminine singular past participle of revenir

Etymology

From the verb revenir