{
    "term": "revenue",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the money that a government receives from taxes or that an organization, etc. receives from its business",
            "labels": "(North American English)(British English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The government is currently facing a shortfall in tax revenue."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Advertising revenue finances the commercial television channels."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a slump in oil revenues"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company's annual revenues rose by 30%."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Tax fraud costs the country millions in lost revenue."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The central government collects the tax revenue on behalf of local authorities."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The project will not generate any revenue until 2010."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their government's revenues come mainly from direct taxes."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These companies rely on advertising revenue for their funds."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Tourism is the island's main source of revenue."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a drop in revenue"
                },
                {
                    "text": "revenues from the sale of oil"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the company's expected annual revenue"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the main sources of public revenue"
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "receipts",
            "topics": ["Money", "Business"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["annual", "yearly", "expected"],
                "verb + revenue": ["depend on", "need", "rely on"],
                "revenue + verb": [
                    "be derived from something",
                    "come from something",
                    "go up"
                ],
                "revenue + noun": ["stream", "share"],
                "preposition": ["revenue from"],
                "phrases": ["loss of revenue", "a source of revenue"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈrevənjuː/",
                "audio": "re/revenue/revenue__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈrevənuː/",
                "audio": "re/revenue/revenue__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French revenu(e) ‘returned’, past participle (used as a noun) of revenir, from Latin revenire ‘return’, from re- ‘back’ + venire ‘come’."
}