revenue

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”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛvənjuː/
• (General American) enPR: rĕvʹə-n(y)o͞oʹ, IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛvəˌn(j)u/

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• Hyphenation (UK): rev‧en‧ue, (US): rev‧e‧nue, rev‧enue

revenue (countable and uncountable, plural revenues)

1. The income returned by an investment.
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 revenue, net sales.

• (accounting): net sales, turnover

• revenuer
• revenue stamp
• revenue cutter

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.

• unreeve

From the verb revenir.

revenue f (plural revenues)

1. a (physical) return; arrival
2. (hunting) the action of game leaving the forest to graze

revenue f

1. feminine singular of the past participle of revenir

• “revenue” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).