revenue

noun

1. the income of a government from taxation, excise duties, customs, or other sources, appropriated to the payment of the public expenses.
2. the government department charged with the collection of such income.
3. revenues, the collective items or amounts of income of a person, a state, etc.
4. the return or yield from any kind of property, patent, service, etc.; income.
5. an amount of money regularly coming in.
6. a particular item or source of income.

noun

1. the income accruing from taxation to a government during a specified period of time, usually a year
2. 1. a government department responsible for the collection of government revenue
   2. (as modifier)revenue men
3. the gross income from a business enterprise, investment, property, etc
4. a particular item of income
5. something that yields a regular financial return; source of income

n.

early 15c., “income from property or possessions,” from Middle French revenue, in Old French, “a return,” noun use of fem. past participle of revenir “come back” (10c.), from Latin revenire “return, come back,” from re- “back” (see re-) + venire “come” (see venue). Meaning “public income” is first recorded 1680s; revenue sharing popularized from 1971. Revenuer “U.S. Department of Revenue agent,” the bane of Appalachian moonshiners, first attested 1880.

The income of local, state, or national governments.