revenue

revenue is on the Academic Word List.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA ^(key): /ˈrɛvənjuː/
• (US) enPR: rĕvʹə-n(y)o͞oʹ, IPA ^(key): /ˈrɛvəˌn(j)u/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

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

Noun

Singular revenue

Plural revenues

1. (uncountable) Revenue is the money that a business receives for doing business, and government receives from taxes.

   Higher oil prices should raise government revenue by 13%.

   Individual taxpayers today provide a bigger share of our tax revenues than they did before.

   The company earned 20% of its revenues from services such as consulting, software and management.

   The City is happy because a new source of revenue has been located.

Synonyms

• income