revenue

Etymology

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”).

noun

1. 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. September 15 2021, 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.
   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.