different between revenue vs livelihood

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

Alternative forms

• livelod
• lyuelode [12th-17th c.]
• lyvelod [14th-17th c.]

Etymology

From Middle English liflode, from Old English l?fl?d (“course of life, conduct”), from l?f (“life”) +? l?d (“course, journey”), later altered under the influence of lively, -hood. Compare life, lode.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?la?vl?h?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?la?vlih?d/

Noun

livelihood (countable and uncountable, plural livelihoods)

1. A means of providing the necessities of life for oneself (for example, a job or income). [from 14^thc.]

   Synonyms: living, subsistence, sustenance

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.4:

     But now, when Philtra saw my lands decay / And former livelod fayle, she left me quight […].

   • 1694, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, London: Thomas Bennet, Sermon 2, p. 293,^[1]

     […] a Man may as easily know where to find one, to teach him to Debauch, Whore, Game, and Blaspheme, as to teach him to Write, or Cast Accompt: ’Tis their Support, and Business; nay, their very Profession, and Livelihood; getting their Living by those Practices, for which they deserve to forfeit their Lives.

   • 1716, Joseph Addison, The Free-Holder, London: D. Midwinter and J. Tonson, No. 42, Monday May 14, p. 245,^[2]

     Trade […] employs Multitudes of Hands both by Sea and Land, and furnishes the poorest of our Fellow-Subjects with the Opportunities of gaining an honest Livelihood.

   • 1865, Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, Chapter 1,^[3]

     And now he’s dead, and left her a widow, and she is staying here; and we are racking our brains to find out some way of helping her to a livelihood without parting her from her child.

   • 1967, Chaim Potok, The Chosen, New York: Fawcett Crest, 1982, Chapter 1, p. 10,^[4]

     [The Orthodox Jewish shopkeepers] could be seen behind their counters, wearing black skullcaps, full beards, and long earlocks, eking out their meager livelihoods and dreaming of Shabbat and festivals when they could close their stores and turn their attention to their prayers, their rabbi, their God.

   • 2013, Matthew Claughton, The Guardian, (letter), 25 April:

     The legal profession believes that client choice is the best way of ensuring standards remain high, because a lawyer's livelihood depends upon their reputation.

2. (now rare) Property which brings in an income; an estate. [from 15^thc.]
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts V:

     Then sayde Peter: Ananias how is it that satan hath fillen thyne hert, thatt thou shuldest lye unto the holy goost, and kepe awaye parte off the pryce off thy lyvelod […]?

3. (obsolete) Liveliness; appearance of life.
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Act I, Scene 1,^[5]

     […] the tyranny of her sorrows takes all livelihood from her cheek.

4. (obsolete) The course of someone's life; a person's lifetime, or their manner of living; conduct, behaviour. [10^th-17^thc.]

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