(n.) 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.
(n.) Hence, return; reward; as, a revenue of praise.
(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
(2) But that gross margin only includes the cost of paying drivers as a cost of revenue, classifying everything else, such as operations, R&D, and sales and marketing, as “operating expenses”.
(3) It's the roughly $2bn in revenue grossed by his blockbuster movies, some of which he had to be talked into making.
(4) With Everton heading for a sixth-placed finish in the Premier League, the additional television revenue and prospect of further funds from Fellaini, the club are confident of appointing an "equally significant" successor to Moyes, according to the chairman, Bill Kenwright.
(5) Ian Read, Pfizer's Scottish-born chief executive, said the tax structure would protect AstraZeneca's revenues from the 38% rate of corporation tax in the US.
(6) DMGT's digital division, Associated Northcliffe Digital, reported that revenues rose 5% to £41m.
(7) Revenue from tobacco duty in 2011-12 was £9.55bn, up from £8.09bn in 2007-08.
(8) Pfizer kept up its efforts to get AstraZeneca to the negotiating table over its £63bn approach as it reported revenue well below Wall Street expectations, underscoring its interest in pursuing its UK rival to promote new business growth.
(9) The involvement of one of South Korea’s most powerful men has rocked the country’s business world, as it signalled that prosecutors were prepared to use the full force of the law against the head of a company whose revenues are equivalent to a fifth of the country’s GDP.
(10) A 20% discount will save the average first-time buyer £43,000 on a £218,000 home (the average cost paid by such buyers), which would leave a revenue shortfall of £8bn from income if current regulatory obligations had been retained on the 200,000 homes.
(11) The bank also warned it was not generating as much revenue as it expected from its corporate and institutional banking arm, the new name for its slimmed down investment banking operations.
(12) In June it warned that some revenues from 31 of about 200 social housing contracts had been deferred hitting the amount of cash coming into the business.
(13) Revenues at the digital media division, which includes bbc.com, increased by 9% to £30m.
(14) Golding said the government would not soften its stance on drug trafficking and it intended to use a proportion of revenues from its licensing authority to support a public education campaign to discourage pot-smoking by young people and mitigate public health consequences.
(15) States are meant to swim alone on this … We’re already doing extraordinary things to deal with the burgeoning demands on our hospitals.” Turnbull reiterated an earlier call for the states and territories to look at increasing some of their own revenue measures to make up for funding shortfalls.
(16) The PR operation grew revenues by 3.7% to account for 9% of total revenue and 11% of profit.
(17) If Spotify is so bad for the music business, why are revenues for the recorded music business in Sweden up 30% (first half of the 2011 vs. the same time period in 2012), when in most other countries, it's down or flat?
(18) The pharmacy business has more than 770 branches in the UK with 7,000 staff, and last year generated revenues of £760m and profits of £33m.
(19) In terms of revenue, well, we think we are already raising a very high percentage, a high percentage of GDP as tax.
(20) Despite its 25% stake, BP said it would be wrong to assume that it would obtain a quarter of the expected $100bn worth of revenues.
Turnover
Definition:
(n.) The act or result of turning over; an upset; as, a bad turnover in a carriage.
(n.) A semicircular pie or tart made by turning one half of a circular crust over the other, inclosing the fruit or other materials.
(n.) An apprentice, in any trade, who is handed over from one master to another to complete his time.
(a.) Admitting of being turned over; made to be turned over; as, a turnover collar, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) This decrease cannot be accounted for by increased turnover of the mRNA in the presence of the drug.
(2) The phenylalanine model allows the rapid assessment of whole body and muscle protein turnover from plasma samples alone, obviating the need for measurement of expired air CO2 production or enrichment.
(3) Platelet survival time in patients with Crohn's disease proved to be significantly shortened (p less than 0.001), whereas platelet turnover appeared augmented.
(4) When given chronically over 6 weeks the advantages of adding benserazide (50 mg kg-1 day-1) to levodopa (40 mg kg-1 day-1) were less marked and although more dopamine was present in the striatum than with levodopa given alone (200 mg kg-1 day-1) there was no evidence of any increase in its metabolites (HVA and DOPAC) and therefore of its turnover and utilisation.
(5) In this study, protein efficiency ratio and net protein utilization together with the kinetic estimates of protein turnover were used to compare the effect of different protein and fat sources in healthy rats.
(6) Baseline evaluation revealed that 17 (32%) patients had high turnover (HTOP), and 36 (68%) normal turnover osteoporosis (NTOP) as assessed by measurement of whole body retention (WBR) of 99mTc-methylene diphosphonate.
(7) As many as 25 turnovers of the transport cycle per monomer can occur prior to attainment of steady state.
(8) Gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists inhibit these maturation responses in a calcium-dependent manner and promote phosphoinositide turnover.
(9) In conclusion, increased cell turnover is a significant component of the sclerotic process both at the onset and in the late stages of this model.
(10) Noradrenaline turnover and metabolism are altered soon after imposing increased workload on heart.
(11) This suggests that the fluphenazine-induced sedation is not mediated via its effect on brain NA content, but is possibly due to the effect of the drug on NA turnover rates in the brain.
(12) It is suggested that reduced IVM may reflect reduced total albumin mass due to lowered rates of albumin synthesis or increased rates of turnover.
(13) In gastric ulcer patients DNA loss or turnover was significantly (p less than 0-01) higher than normal, and fell significantly (p less than 0-01) after four weeks' treatment with carbenoxolone when 16 of the 17 ulcers had healed.
(14) This inhibition is counteracted by the somewhat slower increase of NE turnover resulting in normalization of LH levels.
(15) and the turnover of (22)Na in this fluid it does not appreciably affect the turnover of (22)Na in the brain tissue of either rat or rabbit, the small inhibition observed being probably secondary to the effects on the c.s.f.3.
(16) Brain stem 5-HT turnover was also reduced in nondiabetics but not in diabetics.
(17) The degree of the turnover of AMPs in the kidney varies from case to case.
(18) The degradation of cellular proteins in fibroblasts, both those of rapid and those of slow turnover rates, was inhibited by low concentrations of chloroquine or neutral red in the medium.
(19) Measurements at rate-limiting concentrations of thrombin have allowed estimation of turnover rates of fibrinopeptides that agree with kinetic parameters obtained with direct assay of fibrinopeptide.
(20) The radio-GLC technique described yields approximately 20% higher fractional turnover times for oleic acid than do standard methods.