Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The income of a government from all sources appropriated for the payment of the public expenses.
- n. Yield from property or investment; income.
- n. All the income produced by a particular source.
- n. A governmental department set up to collect public funds.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The annual rents, profits, interest, or issues of any kind of property, real or personal; income.
- n. The annual income of a state, derived from the taxation, customs, excise, or other sources, and appropriated to the payment of the national expenses.
- n. Return; reward.
- n. Synonyms Profit, etc. See income.
Wiktionary
- n. The income returned by an investment
- n. The total income received from a given source
- n. All income generated for some political entity's treasury by taxation and other means
- n. accounting The total sales; turnover.
- n. accounting The net revenue, net sales.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. That which returns, or comes back, from an investment; the annual rents, profits, interest, or issues of any species of property, real or personal; income.
- n. Hence, return; reward.
- n. The annual yield of taxes, excise, customs, duties, rents, etc., which a nation, state, or municipality collects and receives into the treasury for public use.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the entire amount of income before any deductions are made
- n. government income due to taxation
Etymologies
- Recorded in English from 1433, "income from property or possessions", from Middle French revenue, from Old French "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") (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French, from feminine past participle of revenir, to return, from Latin revenīre : re-, re- + venīre, to come; see gwā- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The comments seem to be suggesting why not tax capital if the reduction in revenue is made up by increased taxes on wages.”
Who Bears the Tax Burden?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Nvidia may have reported a loss of $201.3 million for its fiscal 2010 first quarter after the markets closed yesterday, and a 42 percent drop in revenue from the same period a year ago, but the company still has quite a few things going for it.”
“It seems to me that it would be worth it to Tacoma's schools and other government functions that the state raise that $200 million plus in revenue from a sales tax increase. poliTICKLING”
“The state expects to receive $1.2 billion in revenue from the delay of a corporate tax break.”
The Huffington Post: Jessica Levinson: California's Newly "Balanced" Budget Is a Farce
“This year Proactiv's licensee and distributor, Guthy-Renker, will collect roughly $800 million in revenue from the acne treatment -- its runaway bestseller.”
“Does the amount of stimulus spent this year & the loss in revenue from the Making Work Pay cut completely counteract the increase in GDP over what was projected because of the stimulus?”
“LightspeedVenturePartners – Apple has made no more than $20-45m in revenue from the appstore, May 13, 2009”
“All the while you are waiting for that day when the edict comes down: Due to unforeseen shortfalls in revenue from the Lents ballpark, we regret to announce that the new Lents parking meters will now be collecting money during normal downtown parking hours.”
“Number one, gas tax revenue is only one component of transit funding, and may well be augmented by new ones soon — revenue from a cap and trade program, or a greater share of federal transportation funding shifted to transit.”
“Given the cost of wholesale funding and no real prospect of material volume growth, the [weakness in revenue] is likely to continue into 2011," Mr. Quinn said in a note to investors.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘revenue’.
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BUDG - general terms
Budgetese - not a sexy topic but a very comprehensive list of words and collocations used in EU circles. Budgeting experts please comment and expand.
heading, across-the-board ..., emergency reserve, frontload, mopping-up, performance reserve, positive margin, negative margin, public finances, structural operat..., administrative ex..., management of EU ... and 657 more...
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EU - Eurovoc - European Communities
AAMS countries, access to Communi..., access to informa..., accession criteria, accession negotia..., accession to an a..., accession to the ..., accession to the ..., ACP countries, ACP-EC Committee ..., ACP-EC Convention, ACP-EC Council and 1088 more...
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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POL - presidential debates
Some of the catchwords of several presidential debates (Obama-Romney 2012 Denver debate's transcript fully included)
preexist, crosstalk, figure skate, preexisting, spending cut, preconceive, zinger, excruciate, ask over, miniaturize, food stamp, Medicare and 150 more...
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CONT - general terms
additionality, audit trail, accounting standards, auditing standards, general audit obj..., a posteriori audit, a priori audit, above board, acceptable error ..., access rights, accountability, accountable entities and 1283 more...
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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museum words
words from work
provenance, accession, deaccession, conservation, preparator, registrar, curator, jargon, Oz clip, bell plate, stretcher, ornate and 115 more...
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AGRI - CAP
basic prices, buying-in price, agricultural levies, agricultural prices, intervention / tr..., intervention stocks, intervention system, interprofessional..., area aid/payment, area-based subsidy, Community financing, direct assistance and 217 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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TECH - Steve Jobs
admonition, integrate, dominate, emerging, sensation, intense, mentor, intuition, elegant, chassis, culture, chronicle and 76 more...
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money
words for currency
money, cheddar, beans, cheese, cash, gwap, cream, brass, cake, bread, scratch, sugar and 41 more...
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Economists do it with models
arbitrage, behaviour, capital, dromography, embargo, fiscal, globalisation, hyperinflation, incentive, j-curve, keynesian, labour and 143 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
grabbable, retuiteando, leaving, fantastic, absolutely, kurwa, hella, ridic, underpass, hate, interlude, plush and 2369 more... -
Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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ESL Academic Word List
This is a list of academic words for students learning English as a Second or Foreign Language. It includes 570 word families that often appear in academic texts. It does not include words that are...
collapse, depression, colleagues, invoked, levy, nonetheless, likewise, so-called, ongoing, conceived, forthcoming, integrity and 558 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for revenue.
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