revenue

See also: Revenue

English

Etymology

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Recorded in English from 1433, "income from property or possessions", from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French revenue, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French [Term?] (“a return”) (modern French revenu), the prop. feminine past participle of revenir (“come back”) (=modern French), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin revenire (“to return, come back”), from re- (“back”) +‎ venire (“to come”).

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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• 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.
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 revenue, net sales.
6. (figurative) A return; something paid back.
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     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

• 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
• Finnish: tuotto (fi)
• French: revenu (fr) m
• German: Einnahmen (de) f pl
• Greek:

  Ancient: πρόσοδος f (prósodos)

• Italian: reddito (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 収入 (しゅうにゅう, shūnyū)
• Malay: hasil (ms), pendapatan
• 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 (prybútok), дохі́д (uk) (doxíd)

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
• Finnish: tulo (fi)
• French: revenu (fr) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: πρόσοδος f (prósodos)

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• Malay: hasil (ms), pendapatan
• 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

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 pl, overheidsinkomsten pl
• Finnish: verokertymä (fi), kokonaistulot pl
• French: revenu (fr) m, revenus (fr) m pl
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• Greek: εισόδημα (el) n (eisódima)
• Japanese: 歳入 (ja) (さいにゅう, sainyū)
• Malay: hasil (ms), pendapatan
• 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) (šrǰanaṙutʻyun)
• Catalan: rèdit
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: výnos m
• Danish: indtægt c
• Dutch: omzet (nl) m, zakencijfer (nl) n
• Finnish: tulot (fi), liikevaihto (fi), myyntitulo
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• French: revenu (fr) m
• Greek: εισόδημα (el) n (eisódima)
• 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 (prybútok)

net sales — see net sales

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Translations to be checked

• (deprecated template usage) Bulgarian: доход (dóχod) m
• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} tulu
• German: ^{(please verify)} Einkommen (de) n
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} reddito (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 수익 (ko) (su'ik)
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} vectigal
• (deprecated template usage) Mandarin: 收支 (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.

Noun

revenue f (plural revenues)

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

Verb

revenue f

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.