核心畫面
You can think of revenue as the stream of money flowing into an organisation over time — the total that comes in before you take out any costs. Whether the receiver is a company selling goods or a government collecting taxes, it's the same picture: income arriving at the door, measured as a flow over a period.
可以把 revenue 想成一段時間內流進一個組織的「金流」——還沒扣掉任何成本之前，進來的總額。不管收錢的是一家賣…更多收起
可以把 revenue 想成一段時間內流進一個組織的「金流」——還沒扣掉任何成本之前，進來的總額。不管收錢的是一家賣東西的公司，還是一個收稅的政府，畫面都一樣：錢一筆筆流到門口，按一段期間累計起來看。它和「利潤（profit）」不同——revenue 是進來的總水量，利潤是扣掉開銷後剩下的。原始詞典資料9 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Revenuename
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The Inland Revenue, formed in 1849 and dissolved in 2005 to form part of HMRC.
- A body corporate is an entity with a legal personality of its own. The Revenue does not treat a Scottish partnership as a body corporate even though it has separate legal personality.
- We in the Revenue and our National Insurance Contributions Office have held that money, as we could not trace this person, but up pops the person, having got the letter and we re-unite them.
revenuenoun/ˈɹɛvənjuː/
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The income returned by an investment.
- In the seventh series of The X Factor in the UK, it's estimated the phone votes brought in more than £5.4 million in revenue.
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The total income received from a given source.
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All income generated for some political entity's treasury by taxation and other means.
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accountingbusinessfinanceThe total sales; turnover.
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accountingbusinessfinanceThe net income from normal business operations; net sales.
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A return; something paid back.
- a. 1892, Charles Spurgeon, a sermon What, no revenue of praise for him who is our gracious Lord and King! He doth not exact from us any servile labor, but simply saith, “Who so offereth praise glorifieth me.”
revenueverb/ˈɹɛvənjuː/
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To generate revenue.
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To supply with revenue.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。