What does revenue mean?
Word: Revenue
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Revenue means the money a government collects from taxes, or the money a business earns from selling goods or services.
Synonyms: income, earnings
How do you spell revenue?
Syllables: rev - e - nue
Tricky part: It ends in ue; pupils who go by the sound write revenu or revenew.
Watch out for: revenu, revenew
Memory tip: Picture a cash box for the money coming in, with the letters U and E painted on its lid: they are how revenue ends.
Revenue in a sentence
Example 1: The cinema's revenue doubled during the holiday season.
Example 2: Taxes give the government revenue to build roads and schools.
Example 3: Our school fair raised enough revenue to buy new library books.
Fun Fact
In India, the Goods and Services Tax, brought in on 1 July 2017, is now one of the government's biggest sources of revenue.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of the word:
revenue
a) profit
b) expenditure
c) tax
d) salary
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b) expenditure. Revenue is money coming in; expenditure is money going out.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) revenue
b) parliment
c) goverment
d) buget
Show answer
a) revenue. Government has an n before ment, parliament has ia, and budget has a d.
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
r_v_nue
a) e, e
b) i, e
c) e, a
d) a, e
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a) e, e. Both gaps take an e: a short one in rev and a weak one before nue.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
evneure
a) veneer
b) reverie
c) revenue
d) revenge
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c) revenue. The jumble has a u, and only one option has a u at all.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of these adds to a shop's revenue?
a) selling ten more bags of rice
b) buying new shelves for the store
c) paying the monthly electricity bill
d) giving staff a holiday bonus
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a) selling ten more bags of rice
2. If a company's revenue falls, the company is ____.
a) spending less on electricity
b) taking in less money from sales
c) moving to a bigger office
d) hiring many more workers
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b) taking in less money from sales
