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/

  • Audio (US):

    (file)

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

In Early Modern English—e.g. in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries—stressed on the second syllable, as in the following iambic pentameter line:

And coúld my crówn’s revénue bríng him báck (Marlowe, Edward II)

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^[1]:

     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

• daily average revenue trades
• inland revenue
• non-revenue, nonrevenue
• revenue act
• revenue bill
• revenue cutter
• revenue ensign
• revenue land
• revenue management
• revenuer
• revenue raising
• revenue recognition
• revenue sharing grant
• revenue stamp
• tax revenue
• total revenue

 

Translations

income from an investment

• Arabic: إِيرَاد m (ʔīrād)
• Armenian: եկամուտ (hy) (ekamut), շրջանառություն (hy) (šrǰanaṙutʻyun)
• Belarusian: прыбы́так m (prybýtak), дахо́д m (daxód)
• Bulgarian: до́ход (bg) m (dóhod), при́ход (bg) m (príhod)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 收入 (sau¹ jap⁶)

  Mandarin: 收入 (zh) (shōurù)

• Czech: výnos (cs) m, příjem (cs) m, důchod (cs) m
• Danish: indtægt c, indkomst (da) c
• Dutch: opbrengst (nl) f, omzet (nl) m, inkomen (nl) n
• Esperanto: enspezo
• Estonian: tulud pl
• Finnish: tuotto (fi)
• French: revenu (fr) m
• German: Einnahmen (de) f pl, Erlös (de) m, Einkommen (de) n
• Greek: έσοδο (el) n (ésodo)

  Ancient: πρόσοδος f (prósodos)

• Hebrew: תְּשׂוּאָה (he) f (tsuá)
• Hindi: संप्राप्ति (hi) f (samprāpti), आय (hi) m (āy), आमदनी (hi) f (āmadnī)
• Hungarian: árbevétel (hu)
• Ido: revenuo (io)
• Italian: reddito (it) m
• Japanese: 収入 (ja) (しゅうにゅう, shūnyū), 収益 (ja) (しゅうえき, shūeki)
• Kazakh: табыс (tabys)
• Korean: 수입(收入) (ko) (su'ip), 수익(收益) (ko) (su'ik)
• Latin: reditus m
• Latvian: ieņēmumus m, ienākums m
• Lithuanian: pajamos (lt) f pl
• Macedonian: приход m (prihod)
• Malay: hasil (ms), pendapatan (ms)
• Maori: moni whiwhi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: inntekt (no) m or f

• Persian: دَرآمَد (fa) (dar-âmad), دَخل (fa) (daxl)
• Polish: dochód (pl) m, przychód (pl) m
• Portuguese: retorno (pt) m
• Romanian: venituri n pl
• Russian: дохо́д (ru) m (doxód), поступле́ние (ru) n (postuplénije), вы́ручка (ru) f (výručka)
• Scottish Gaelic: teachd-a-steach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: при́ход m

  Roman: príhod (sh) m

• Slovak: výnos m, príjem m
• Slovene: prihodek m
• Spanish: retorno (es) m
• Swedish: intäkt (sv) c, inkomst (sv) c
• Tajik: даромад (tg) (daromad), дахл (daxl)
• Thai: รายได้ (th) (raai-dâai)
• Turkish: gelir (tr), kâr (tr), varidat (tr)
• Ukrainian: прибу́ток (uk) m (prybútok), дохі́д (uk) m (doxíd), ви́торг m (výtorh)
• Urdu: آمَدَنی (ur) f (āmadnī)
• Vietnamese: thu nhập (vi) (收入)

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)
• Indonesian: pendapatan (id)
• 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) (šrǰanaṙutʻyun)
• 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

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• 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) (shōuzhī) (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

French

Etymology

From the verb revenir.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

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 revenu

Further reading

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