different between consequence vs revenue

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French consequence , from Latin consequentia.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?ns?kw?ns/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?ns?kw?ns/, /?k?ns?kw?ns/

Noun

consequence (plural consequences)

1. That which follows something on which it depends; that which is produced by a cause.
2. A result of actions, especially if such a result is unwanted or unpleasant.
3. A proposition collected from the agreement of other previous propositions; any conclusion which results from reason or argument; inference.
4. Chain of causes and effects; consecution.
5. Importance with respect to what comes after.
6. The power to influence or produce an effect.
7. (especially when preceded by "of") Importance, value, or influence.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "consequence": social, legal, environmental, political, economic, personal, cultural, moral, unintended, undesirable, likely, probable, necessary, logical, natural, important, significant, bad, disastrous, devastating, fatal, catastrophic, harmful.

Synonyms

• aftercome
• distinction
• implication
• moment
• rank
• repercussion
• value

Related terms

Translations

See also

• causality
• effect
• impact

Verb

consequence (third-person singular simple present consequences, present participle consequencing, simple past and past participle consequenced)

1. (transitive) To threaten or punish (a child, etc.) with specific consequences for misbehaviour.
   • 1998, Terry M. Levy, Michael Orlans, Attachment, trauma, and healing

     The goal of consequencing is to teach the child a lesson that leads to positive choices and behaviors. The goal of punishment is to inflict pain and seek revenge. Angry parenting is punitive and ineffectual.

References

Further reading

• consequence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• consequence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• consequence at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???v?nju?/
• (General American) enPR: r?v??-n(y)o?o?, IPA^(key): /???v??n(j)u/
• Hyphenation (UK): rev?en?ue, (US): rev?e?nue, rev?enue

Noun

revenue (countable and uncountable, plural revenues)

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1. The income returned by an investment.
2. The total income received from a given source.
3. All income generated for some political entity's treasury by taxation and other means.
4. (accounting) The total sales; turnover.
5. (accounting) The net income from normal business operations; net sales.
6. (figuratively) A return; something paid back.
   • 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.”

Synonyms

• (accounting): net sales, turnover

Derived terms

• non-revenue, nonrevenue
• revenuer
• revenue stamp
• revenue cutter

Translations

Verb

revenue (third-person singular simple present revenues, present participle revenuing, simple past and past participle revenued)

1. (intransitive) To generate revenue.
2. (transitive) To supply with revenue.

Anagrams

• unreeve

French

Etymology

From the verb revenir.

Noun

revenue f (plural revenues)

1. a (physical) return; arrival
2. (hunting) the action of game leaving the forest to graze

Verb

revenue f

1. feminine singular of the past participle of revenir

Further reading

• “revenue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).