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revenue
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?)
- The income returned by an investment.
- The total income received from a given source.
- All income generated for some political entity's treasury by taxation and other means.
- (accounting) The total sales; turnover.
- (accounting) The net income from normal business operations; net sales.
- (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.”
- a. 1892, Charles Spurgeon, a sermon
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)
- (intransitive) To generate revenue.
- (transitive) To supply with revenue.
Anagrams
- unreeve
French
Etymology
From the verb revenir.
Noun
revenue f (plural revenues)
- a (physical) return; arrival
- (hunting) the action of game leaving the forest to graze
Verb
revenue f
- 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).
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means
English
Etymology
See mean (“method or course of action used to achieve some result”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mi?nz/
- Rhymes: -i?nz
Noun
means
- plural of mean
means (plural means)
- An instrument or condition for attaining a purpose.
- A car is a means of transport.
means pl (plural only) (uncountable)
- Resources; riches.
- He was living beyond his means.
Usage notes
Frequently contrasted with end (“goal”), as in “a means to an end”. Similar contrast is process vs. product.
Synonyms
- wherewithal
Translations
Verb
means
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mean
Anagrams
- Mensa, Seman, amens, manes, manse, mensa, mesna, names, namés, neams, ñames
Latin
Etymology
Present active participle of me? (“go along, traverse”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?me.ans/, [?meä??s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?me.ans/, [?m???ns]
Participle
me?ns (genitive meantis); third-declension one-termination participle
- going along, passing, traversing
Declension
Third-declension participle.
1When used purely as an adjective.
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