Revenue

n.	1.	That which returns, or comes back, from an investment; the annual rents, profits, interest, or issues of any species of property, real or personal; income. Do not anticipate your revenues and live upon air till you know what you are worth. - Gray.
	2.	Hence, return; reward; as, a revenue of praise.
	3.	The annual yield of taxes, excise, customs, duties, rents, etc., which a nation, state, or municipality collects and receives into the treasury for public use. Revenue cutter an armed government vessel employed to enforce revenue laws, prevent smuggling, etc.

Noun	1.	revenue - the entire amount of income before any deductions are made Synonyms: receipts, gross
	2.	revenue - government income due to taxation Synonyms: tax income, tax revenue, taxation

REVENUE. The income of the government arising from taxation, duties, and the like; and, according to some correct lawyers, under the idea of revenue is also included the proceeds of the sale of stocks, lands, and other property owned by the government. Story, Const. Sec. 877. Vide Money Bills. By revenue is also understood the income of private individuals and corporations.

avails, box office, commissions, credit, credits, disposable income, dividend, dividends, earned income, earnings, gain, gains, gate, gate receipts, get, gross, gross income, gross receipts, intake, interest, make, net, net income, net receipts, output, produce, profits, receipt, receipts, receivables, returns, royalties, salary, take-in, takings, unearned income, wages, yield