Revenue
['revənjuː] or ['rɛvənu]
Definition
(n.) That which returns, or comes back, from an investment; the annual rents, profits, interest, or issues of any species of property, real or personal; income.
(n.) Hence, return; reward; as, a revenue of praise.
(n.) The annual yield of taxes, excise, customs, duties, rents, etc., which a nation, state, or municipality collects and receives into the treasury for public use.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Income, receipts.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Income, produce, return, proceeds, fruits, wealth, enrichment
ANT:Outgoings, expenditure, waste, deductions, exhaustion, expense, impoverishment
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Definition
n. the receipts or rents from any source: return as a revenue of praise: income: the income of a state.—n. Rev′enue-cut′ter an armed vessel employed by custom-house officers in preventing smuggling.—adj. Rev′enued.—ns. Rev′enue-en′sign a distinctive flag authorised in 1798 in United States; Rev′enue-off′icer an officer of the customs or excise; In′land-rev′enue revenue derived from stamps excise income-tax &c.
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Examples
- Such colonies, therefore, have been a source of expense, and not of revenue, to their respective mother countries. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But the revenue of the sovereign does not, in any part of Europe, arise chiefly from a land tax or land rent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But the revenue of all the inhabitants of the country is necessarily in proportion to the value of the annual produce of their land and labour. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In both regulations, the sacred rights of private property are sacrificed to the supposed interests of public revenue. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But the revenue of idle people, considered as a class or order, cannot, in the smallest degree, be increased by those operations of banking. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Capitation taxes are levied at little expense; and, where they are rigorously exacted, afford a very sure revenue to the state. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- By means of this system, there is annually levied in Great Britain, upon less than eight millions of people, more than ten millions of revenue. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The farmers of the public revenue never find the laws too severe, which punish any attempt to evade the payment of a tax. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But countries which contribute neither revenue nor military force towards the support of the empire, cannot be considered as provinces. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The first is that portion which is reserved for immediate consumption, and of which the characteristic is, that it affords no revenue or profit. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- These are the two sorts of revenue of which the owners have generally most to spare. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- His revenue is, in the one case, profit, in the other intereSt. The revenue of a Tartar or Arabian chief consists in profit. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Every tax must finally be paid from some one or other of those three different sources of revenue, or from all of them indifferently. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- That of an individual is totally excluded from making any part of his neat revenue, which must consist altogether in his profits. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The revenues of the Governor of Coventry Island are not large. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- So the Government intends to take to itself a great portion of the revenues arising from priestly farms, factories, etc. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It includes what are usually two distinct revenues, belonging to two distinct persons, the profits of stock, and the wages of labour. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The revenues from the province of Asia defrayed the expenses of the Roman state. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The only change was, that Mexico became her own executor of the laws and the recipient of the revenues. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In countries where the public revenues are in farm, the farmers are generally the most opulent people. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The revenues arising from both those species of rents were, the greater part of them, paid in kind, in corn, wine, cattle, poultry, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- His Majesty's revenues are seldom collected in this happy valley; the rents are dubious; and the water communication is very frequently cut off. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- His revenues, if he has any, are soon spent. Plato. The Republic.
- The other revenues of the ecclesiastics of both religions at fifty per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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