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# revenue

«revenue» in Mova's school dictionary: **The money that a business or government gets in, before…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revenue/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revenue/#x1)
- If we sell 40 cookies at 50p each, the revenue is £20. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revenue/#x2)
- The government gets revenue from taxes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revenue/#x3)
- Revenue went up when the shop opened on Sundays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revenue/#x4)
- The club's main revenue comes from ticket sales. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revenue/#x5)
- Subtract costs from revenue to find the profit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revenue/#x6)
- Then the king was pleased, and gave him the revenue of many villages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revenue/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.416/)
- [Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.451/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «revenue» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revenue/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.