income, especially when of an organization and of a substantial nature:traders have lost £10,000 in revenue since the traffic scheme was implemented
a state’s annual income from which public expenses are met:his priority was to raise government revenue and to lower expenditurethe government’s tax revenues
(often the revenue) the department of the civil service collecting state revenue:when the revenue makes a demand for tax, that demand is implicitly backed by the powers of the stateSee also inland revenue.