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Revenue

Meaning in public administration, with examples

/ˈrevənjuː/nounCore term

In public administration, revenue means: Money that a government or public body receives, mainly from taxes but also from fees, charges, fines and the sale of assets.

In Turkish: gelir, kamu geliri, hasılat

How it is used

Often plural in budgets: tax revenues, local revenues. Revenue is collected, raised, generated or lost. Tax authorities are often named after it; Turkey's Gelir İdaresi Başkanlığı, for example, is called the Revenue Administration in English.

Example sentences

  1. Tax revenue was lower than forecast because of the economic slowdown.

  2. The municipality is looking for new sources of revenue, such as parking fees.

Common collocations

  • tax revenue
  • raise revenue
  • source of revenue
  • revenue collection
  • loss of revenue
  • budgetA plan showing how much money a government or public body expects to receive and how it will spend that money over a set period, usually one year.
  • taxpayerA person or company that pays tax; in public debate, the citizens whose taxes fund public services.
  • public spendingMoney spent by the government and other public bodies on services, salaries, investment and benefits; formal texts often call it public expenditure.
  • budget deficitThe amount by which a government's spending is greater than its revenue in a given year; the opposite is a budget surplus.

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