revenue
part of speech
noun (revenue, revenues)
meaning for a pupil
(formal) The money that a business or government gets in, before costs are taken away; income. tree →
sense in the lessons
In maths word problems revenue = price × number sold; profit = revenue − costs. In social studies, governments get revenue from taxes. Exam questions use this formal word. Phrases: tax revenue, raise revenue, revenue from sales.
examples
- The school fair's revenue was £500. tree →
- If we sell 40 cookies at 50p each, the revenue is £20. tree →
- The government gets revenue from taxes. tree →
- Revenue went up when the shop opened on Sundays. tree →
- The club's main revenue comes from ticket sales. tree →
- Subtract costs from revenue to find the profit. tree →
- Then the king was pleased, and gave him the revenue of many villages. tree →
note
Revenue is not the same as profit: profit is what is left after paying costs. Usually uncountable; revenues can mean several streams of income. Formal; the everyday word is income or takings.
In the corpora
- In the house of the righteous is much treasure; but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.
- Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «revenue» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.