Definition of "revenue" []

• The income of a government from all sources appropriated for the payment of the public expenses. (noun)
• Yield from property or investment; income. (noun)
• All the income produced by a particular source. (noun)
• A governmental department set up to collect public funds. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The comments seem to be suggesting why not tax capital if the reduction in revenue is made up by increased taxes on wages."
• "Nvidia may have reported a loss of $201.3 million for its fiscal 2010 first quarter after the markets closed yesterday, and a 42 percent drop in revenue from the same period a year ago, but the company still has quite a few things going for it."
• "It seems to me that it would be worth it to Tacoma's schools and other government functions that the state raise that $200 million plus in revenue from a sales tax increase. poliTICKLING"