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