Revenue vs. Earnings

Revenuenoun

The income returned by an investment.

Revenuenoun

The total income received from a given source.

Revenuenoun

All income generated for some political entity's treasury by taxation and other means.

Revenuenoun

(accounting) The total sales; turnover.

Revenuenoun

(accounting) The net revenue, net sales.

Revenueverb

(intransitive) To generate revenue.

Revenueverb

(transitive) To supply with revenue.

Revenuenoun

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.

Revenuenoun

Hence, return; reward; as, a revenue of praise.

Revenuenoun

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.

Revenuenoun

the entire amount of income before any deductions are made

Revenuenoun

government income due to taxation

Revenuenoun

income, especially when of an organization and of a substantial nature

Revenuenoun

a state's annual income from which public expenses are met

Revenuenoun

the department of the civil service collecting state revenue

Revenue

In accounting, revenue is the income or increase in net assets that an entity has from its normal activities (in the case of a business, usually from the sale of goods and services to customers). Commercial revenue may also be referred to as sales or as turnover.

Earningsnoun

Wages, money earned, income.

Earningsnoun

(finance) Business profits.

Earningsnoun

(finance) Gains on investments; returns.

Earningsnoun

the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)

Earningsnoun

something that remunerates;

Earnings

Earnings are the net benefits of a corporation's operation. Earnings is also the amount on which corporate tax is due.