See Also: Net Revenue(money)
Other Revenue(money)
revenue(dictionary)
Revenue(money)
revenue(dictionary)
REVENUE(law)
Revenue sharing(money)
Sales Revenue(money)
Total revenue(money)
Revenue fund(money)

revenue (iou)



revenue noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French revenu, -ue uses as noun of masc. & fem. pa. pple of revenir from Latin revenire, formed as RE- + venire come.]
Return to a place. rare. LME-M16.
Income, spec. from property, possessions, or investment, esp. of an extensive kind. Formerly also foll. by of the source of income. LME.
Adam Smith The revenue derived from labour is called wages. J. R. McCulloch It is..from revenue that..taxes should be derived. A. Lomax The revenue from the..gambling games. Economist Its revenue is likely to be less than 1% of..TV advertising.
b. spec. The annual income of a government or State, from all sources, out of which public expenses are met; the government department responsible for the collection of this. L17.
inland revenue: see INLAND adjective. internal revenue: see INTERNAL adjective.
In pl. The collective items or amounts constituting such an income. Formerly also foll. by of the source. LME.
J. K. Galbraith Inflation does not automatically bring added revenues.
An income; a separate source or item of (private or public) income. LME.
H. Macmillan How to match..expenditure with an adequate revenue.
Comb.: revenue bond a bond issued to finance a specific building etc. project and payable only from revenue deriving from that project; revenue tax a tax imposed to raise revenue, rather than to affect trade etc.
? Formerly also commonly stressed on 2nd syll.
revenuer noun (US) an agent of the internal revenue L19.