revenue

plural revenues

1. countableuncountableThe 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.

   2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC

2. countableuncountableThe total income received from a given source.
3. countableuncountableAll income generated for some political entity's treasury by taxation and other means.
4. countableuncountableaccountingThe total sales; turnover.
5. countableuncountableaccountingThe net income from normal business operations; net sales.
6. countablefigurativelyuncountableA 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.”

present singular third person revenues · participle present revenuing · participle past revenued · past revenued

1. intransitiveTo generate revenue.
2. transitiveTo supply with revenue.

1. UKThe 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.

   2003, Michael Thomas, Stamp Duty Land Tax, Cambridge University Press, page 83

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   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.

   2004, House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts, The Recovery of Debt by the Inland Revenue (Forty-ninth Report of Session 2003-04), The Stationery Office, page Ev 9

   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.

   2005, Tax Cases Reported Under the Direction of the Board of Inland Revenue (with Notes of Argument Prepared by the Law Reporters to the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales), The Stationery Office, page 391