revenue
NOUN · English
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The corpus records 6 senses of revenue. Each sense below has its own Add to list, so you choose the one you mean.
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Experimental coverage — measured below Partial on the number of recorded words, definitions, translations, word forms and pronunciation. Treat entries as evidence to check; meanings may be incomplete.
English is Experimental in Words. Support is measured, not declared: a language reaches Partial only when every measure meets its threshold, and a measure that has not been taken does not count. The development corpus holds 60 source-backed words in English. What is shown may be incomplete, and pronunciation audio, generated forms and generated examples are not offered.
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Definition: The income returned by an investment. From a source of medium confidence.
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- 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:
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Definition: The total income received from a given source. From a source of medium confidence.
countable · uncountable
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Definition: All income generated for some political entity's treasury by taxation and other means. From a source of medium confidence.
countable · uncountable
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Definition: The total sales; turnover. From a source of medium confidence.
countable · uncountable
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Definition: The net income from normal business operations; net sales. From a source of medium confidence.
countable · uncountable
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Definition: A return; something paid back. From a source of medium confidence.
countable · figuratively · uncountable
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- 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.” Usage example — not an attested quotation.
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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”). From a source of medium confidence.
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