different between revenue vs assets

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)

(Can we add an example for this sense?)

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).

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æsets/

Noun

assets

1. plural of asset

Noun

assets pl (normally plural, singular asset)

1. (finance) Any property or object of value that one possesses, usually considered as applicable to the payment of one's debts.

   His assets are much greater than his liabilities.

2. (accounting) The left side of a balance sheet.

   The assets must equal liabilities, otherwise there is an error in your balance sheet.

3. (law) Sufficient estate; property sufficient in the hands of an executor or heir to pay the debts or legacies of the testator or ancestor to satisfy claims against it.
4. Any goods or property properly available for the payment of a bankrupt's or a deceased person's obligations or debts.
5. (slang, vulgar, usually in the plural) Private parts; a woman's breasts or buttocks, or a man's genitalia.

Translations

Anagrams

• TESSAs, stases, tasses

Danish

Noun

assets n

1. definite genitive singular of as

Swedish

Noun

assets

1. definite genitive singular of ass