HOW TO PRONOUNCE
revenue
/ˈɹɛvənˌju/
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Stress REV, with the vowel in red. The ending can include a y-like glide before oo.
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“Annual revenue increased.”
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Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗What does revenue mean?
noun
- 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.
More meanings (6)
noun
- The total sales; turnover.
- The net income from normal business operations; net sales.
- (figuratively) A return; something paid back.
verb
- To generate revenue.
- To supply with revenue.
proper noun
- The Inland Revenue, formed in 1849 and dissolved in 2005 to form part of HMRC.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɹɛvənˌju/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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The government's past economic diversification efforts have moderated the severity of the downturn but failed to offset oil and gas revenue losses.
This crop, therefore, brought him seven or eight hundred dollars a year, besides his yearly salary, and other revenue from his farms.
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There was a tree just behind which bore alligator pears, and all about were the cocoa-nuts which gave the land its revenue.
“These are the guards on the frontier, enforcing the revenue laws. That man was killed to protect the revenues of the State.”
While a large annual surplus of revenue may invite waste and extravagance, inadequate revenue creates distrust and undermines public and private credit.