revenue

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The income returned by an investment.

   “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. (countable, uncountable)The total income received from a given source.
3. (countable, uncountable)All income generated for some political entity's treasury by taxation and other means.
4. (countable, uncountable)The total sales; turnover.
5. (countable, uncountable)The net income from normal business operations; net sales.
6. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)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.””

verb

1. (intransitive)To generate revenue.
2. (transitive)To supply with revenue.

name

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

   “A body corporate is an entity with a legal personality of its own. The Revenue does not treat a Scottish partnership as a body corporate even though it has separate legal personality.”

   “We in the Revenue and our National Insurance Contributions Office have held that money, as we could not trace this person, but up pops the person, having got the letter and we re-unite them.”

   “As a result of the decision of the Court of Appeal in Clark v. Perks (2001) 74 TC 187, the Revenue accepted that jack-up rigs similar to the rig on which the taxpayer worked should be treated as being a ship for the purposes of claiming foreign earnings deductions before 17 March 1998.”