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revenue

Best crossword clue

"Income before deductions"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈɹɛvənjuː/Part of speech nounSorted eeenruvStarts with REnds with E1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

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

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • 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.”
  • A body corporate is an entity with a legal personality of its own. The Revenue does not treat a Scottish partnership as a body corporate even though it has separate legal personality.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

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