REVENUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does revenue mean? 

• REVENUE (noun)
  The noun REVENUE has 2 senses:

1. the entire amount of income before any deductions are made

2. government income due to taxation

  Familiarity information: REVENUE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REVENUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The entire amount of income before any deductions are made

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

gross; receipts; revenue

Hypernyms ("revenue" is a kind of...):

amount; amount of money; sum; sum of money (a quantity of money)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "revenue"):

box office (total admission receipts for an entertainment)

gate (total admission receipts at a sports event)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Government income due to taxation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

revenue; tax income; tax revenue; taxation

Hypernyms ("revenue" is a kind of...):

government income; government revenue (income available to the government)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "revenue"):

internal revenue (government revenue from domestic sources (excluding customs))

 Context examples 

Diltiazem blocks voltage-sensitive calcium channels in the blood vessels, by inhibiting the ion-control gating mechanisms, thereby preventing calcium levels increase by other revenues.

(Diltiazem, NCI Thesaurus)

It was painted black, and from the talk of the hunters of their poaching exploits I recognized it as a United States revenue cutter.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He had been a member of the crew of the smuggling schooner Halcyon when she was captured by a revenue cutter.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

One, tailing out behind the rest, was a lad that had gone from the hamlet to Dr. Livesey's; the rest were revenue officers, whom he had met by the way, and with whom he had had the intelligence to return at once.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The treasurer was of the same opinion: he showed to what straits his majesty’s revenue was reduced, by the charge of maintaining you, which would soon grow insupportable; that the secretary’s expedient of putting out your eyes, was so far from being a remedy against this evil, that it would probably increase it, as is manifest from the common practice of blinding some kind of fowls, after which they fed the faster, and grew sooner fat; that his sacred majesty and the council, who are your judges, were, in their own consciences, fully convinced of your guilt, which was a sufficient argument to condemn you to death, without the formal proofs required by the strict letter of the law.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Master Pew's dead, when all's done; not that I regret it, but he's dead, you see, and people will make it out against an officer of his Majesty's revenue, if make it out they can.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

And your friend the secretary, humbly desiring to be heard again, in answer to what the treasurer had objected, concerning the great charge his majesty was at in maintaining you, said, that his excellency, who had the sole disposal of the emperor’s revenue, might easily provide against that evil, by gradually lessening your establishment; by which, for want of sufficient for you would grow weak and faint, and lose your appetite, and consequently, decay, and consume in a few months; neither would the stench of your carcass be then so dangerous, when it should become more than half diminished; and immediately upon your death five or six thousand of his majesty’s subjects might, in two or three days, cut your flesh from your bones, take it away by cart-loads, and bury it in distant parts, to prevent infection, leaving the skeleton as a monument of admiration to posterity.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)