REVENUE

gross, revenue, receipts

(noun) the entire amount of income before any deductions are made

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Proper noun

the Revenue

(UK) The Inland Revenue, formed in 1849 and dissolved in 2005 to form part of HMRC.

Anagrams

• unreeve

Etymology

Noun

revenue (countable and uncountable, plural revenues)

The income returned by an investment.

The total income received from a given source.

All income generated for some political entity's treasury by taxation and other means.

(accounting) The total sales; turnover.

(accounting) The net income from normal business operations; net sales.

(figurative) A return; something paid back.

Synonyms

• (accounting): net sales, turnover

Verb

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

(intransitive) To generate revenue.

(transitive) To supply with revenue.

Anagrams

• unreeve

Source: Wiktionary

Rev"e*nue, n. Etym: [F. revenu, OF. revenue, fr. revenir to return, L. revenire; pref. re- re- + venire to come. See Come.]

1. 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. Do not anticipate your revenues and live upon air till you know what you are worth. Gray.

2. Hence, return; reward; as, a revenue of praise.

3. 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. Revenue cutter, an armed government vessel employed to enforce revenue laws, prevent smuggling, etc.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition