revenue
//ˈɹɛvənjuː//
Forms
- Plural
- revenues
- present (v1)
- revenue
- past (v2)
- revenued
- past participle (v3)
- revenued
- present participle
- revenuing
- 3rd person singular
- revenues
Definitions
1.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.The total income received from a given source.
3.All income generated for some political entity's treasury by taxation and other means.
4.The total sales; turnover.
1.To generate revenue.
2.To supply with revenue.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1744
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Word family
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.