Definition of "revenue"

revenue

/ˈɹɛvənjuː/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural revenues
1. The income returned by an investment.
  Quotations
  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. 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.
  Quotations
  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.”
  a. 1892, Charles Spurgeon, a sermon
verb
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.