revenue

revenue

See also: Revenue

English

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”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛvənjuː/
• (General American) enPR: rĕvʹə-n(y)o͞oʹ, IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛvəˌn(j)u/

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• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈvɛnjuː/
• Hyphenation (UK): rev‧en‧ue, (US): rev‧e‧nue, rev‧enue

Noun

revenue (countable and uncountable, plural revenues)

1. The income returned by an investment.
   • 2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC‎:

     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. (accounting) The total sales; turnover.
5. (accounting) The net income from normal business operations; net sales.
6. (figurative) 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.”

Synonyms

• (accounting): net sales, turnover

Derived terms

• non-revenue, nonrevenue
• revenuer
• revenue stamp
• revenue cutter

Translations

income from an investment

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: եկամուտ (hy) (ekamut) Chinese: Mandarin: 收入 (zh) (shōurù) Dutch: opbrengst (nl) f Esperanto: enspezo Finnish: tuotto (fi) French: revenu (fr) m German: Einnahmen (de) f pl Greek: Ancient: πρόσοδος f (prósodos) Hebrew: תְּשׂוּאָה‎‎ f (tsuá) Ido: revenuo (io) Italian: reddito (it) Japanese: 収入 (ja) (しゅうにゅう, shūnyū) Kazakh: табыс (kk) (tabys) Latin: reditus m Malay: hasil (ms), pendapatan (ms) Maori: moni whiwhi Polish: dochód (pl) m Portuguese: retorno (pt) m Russian: дохо́д (ru) m (doxód), поступле́ние (ru) n (postuplénije), вы́ручка (ru) f (výručka) Scottish Gaelic: teachd-a-steach m Spanish: retorno (es) Ukrainian: прибу́ток (uk) (prybútok), дохі́д (uk) (doxíd) Turkish: gelir (tr), kâr (tr), varidat (tr)

total income from a given source

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: եկամուտ (hy) (ekamut) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Dutch: inkomen (nl) n, inkomsten (nl) pl Esperanto: enspezo Finnish: tulo (fi) French: revenu (fr) m Greek: Ancient: πρόσοδος f (prósodos) Ido: revenuo (io) Latin: reditus m Malay: hasil (ms), pendapatan (ms) Maori: moni whiwhi Polish: dochód (pl) m Portuguese: renda (pt) f Scottish Gaelic: teachd-a-steach m Serbo-Croatian: prihod (sh) m Spanish: renta (es) f Turkish: varidat (tr), irat (tr)

all income for some treasury by taxation e.a.

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Danish: skatteindtægt c Dutch: staatsinkomsten (nl) pl, overheidsinkomsten pl Finnish: verokertymä (fi), kokonaistulot pl French: revenu (fr) m, revenus (fr) m pl Greek: εισόδημα (el) n (eisódima) Ido: revenuo (io) Japanese: 歳入 (ja) (さいにゅう, sainyū) Malay: hasil (ms), pendapatan (ms) Maori: moni whiwhi Polish: dochód (pl) m Scottish Gaelic: teachd-a-steach m Spanish: recaudación (es) f

turnover, total sales

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: շրջանառություն (hy) (šrǰanaṙutʿyun) Catalan: rèdit (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: výnos (cs) m Danish: indtægt c Dutch: omzet (nl) m, zakencijfer (nl) n Esperanto: enspezo Finnish: tulot (fi), liikevaihto (fi), myyntitulo French: revenu (fr) m, chiffre d'affaires (fr) m Greek: εισόδημα (el) n (eisódima) Ido: revenuo (io) Japanese: 収益 (ja) (しゅうえき, shūeki) Malay: hasil (ms) Polish: obroty m pl Portuguese: receita (pt) f Russian: дохо́д (ru) m (doxód), вы́ручка (ru) f (výručka) Spanish: rédito (es) Swedish: omsättningen (sv) Ukrainian: дохі́д (uk) (doxíd), прибу́ток (uk) (prybútok)

net sales — see net sales

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Bulgarian: (please verify) доход (bg) m (dohod) (dóχod) Estonian: (please verify) tulu German: (please verify) Einkommen (de) n Italian: (please verify) reddito (it) Korean: (please verify) 수익 (ko) (su'ik) Latin: (please verify) vectigal Mandarin: (please verify) 收支 (zh) (shouzhi) Norwegian: (please verify) inntekt (no)

Verb

revenue (third-person singular simple present revenues, present participle revenuing, simple past and past participle revenued)

1. (intransitive) To generate revenue.
2. (transitive) To supply with revenue.

Anagrams

• unreeve

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French

Etymology

From the verb revenir.

Pronunciation

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Noun

revenue f (plural revenues)

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

Participle

revenue f sg

1. feminine singular of the past participle of revenir

Further reading

• “revenue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.