revenue
Syllables: rev·en·ueUK/ˈɹɛvənjuː//ˈɹɛvənˌju/
revenue noun: the income returned by an investment.
Noun
revenue (countable and uncountable, plural revenues)
- 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.2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC
- The total income received from a given source.
- All income generated for some political entity's treasury by taxation and other means.
- The total sales; turnover.
- The net income from normal business operations; net sales.
- 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.”
- a. 1892, Charles Spurgeon, a sermon
Verb
revenue (third-person singular simple present revenues, present participle revenuing, simple past and past participle revenued)
- To generate revenue.
- To supply with revenue.
Proper noun capitalized: Revenue
the Revenue
- 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.2003, Michael Thomas, Stamp Duty Land Tax, Cambridge University Press, page 83
- We in the Revenue and our National Insurance Contributions Office have held that money, as we could not trace this person, but up pops the person, having got the letter and we re-unite them.2004, House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts, The Recovery of Debt by the Inland Revenue (Forty-ninth Report of Session 2003-04), The Stationery Office, page Ev 9
revenue meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
revenue in Hindi
- income from an investment
- संप्राप्ति samprāpti, आय āy, आमदनी āmadnī
- all income for some treasury by taxation e.a.
- राजस्व rājasva
- turnover, total sales
- राजस्व rājasva
revenue in Tamil
- வருமானம், வருவாய்
revenue in Marathi
- महसूल
revenue in Urdu
- income from an investment
- آمَدَنی āmadnī
More languagesFewer languages
- revenue in Bengali
- খাজনা khajna
- revenue in Malayalam
- റവന്യൂ, വരുമാനം, വരവ്, അനുഭവം
- revenue in Kannada
- ಹುಟ್ಟುವಳಿ, ಆದಾಯ, ವರಮಾನ, ಆಯ
- revenue in Punjabi
- مالی mālī, ਮਾਲੀ mālī
- revenue in Odia
- ରାଜସ୍ୱ
- revenue in Sanskrit
- राजस्वः rājasvaḥ
- revenue in Nepali
- राजस्व
- revenue in Arabic
- إِيرَاد ʔīrād
- revenue in Malay
- hasil, pendapatan
- revenue in Indonesian
- pendapatan
- revenue in Persian
- دَرآمَد dar-âmad, دَخل daxl
- revenue in Thai
- รายได้ raai-dâai
- revenue in Vietnamese
- thu nhập
Examples of revenue in a sentence
- The revenues from both brand-name drugs and generic drugs have increased.
- Have you seen the company's revenue? It's through the floor. They're gone.
- The company plans to outsell last year’s revenue with the new product.
Synonyms of revenue
Forms of revenue
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | revenues |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | revenues |
| present participle | revenuing |
| past participle | revenued |
| past | revenued |
Origin of 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”).
Words formed from revenue
- daily average revenue trades
- inland revenue
- non-revenue
- nonrevenue
- petrorevenue
- revenual
- revenue act
- revenue bill
- Revenue Canada
- revenue cutter
- revenue ensign
- revenue land
- revenue management
- revenuer
- revenue raising
- revenue recognition
- revenue sharing grant
- revenue stamp
- tax revenue
- total revenue
- unrevenued
Phrases with revenue
Questions about revenue
- What does revenue mean?
- Revenue means the income returned by an investment.
- What is revenue in Hindi?
- Revenue in Hindi is संप्राप्ति (samprāpti), आय (āy), आमदनी (āmadnī). See Revenue meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is revenue?
- Revenue can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce revenue?
- Revenue is pronounced /ˈɹɛvənjuː/ (UK).
- What is the plural of revenue?
- The plural of revenue is revenues.
Words near revenue in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: revenue (page history and authors); Revenue (page history and authors); revenue (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); revenue (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); খাজনা (Bengali) (page history and authors); revenue (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); revenue (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); مالی (Punjabi) (page history and authors); revenue (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); revenue (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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