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Revenue vs Apanage - What's the difference?

revenue | apanage |

As nouns the difference between revenue and apanage

is that revenue is the income returned by an investment while apanage is a grant (especially by a sovereign) of land (or other source of revenue) as a birthright.

revenue

English

Noun

(wikipedia revenue) (en noun)
  • The income returned by an investment.
  • The total income received from a given source.
  • All income generated for some political entity's treasury by taxation and other means.
  • (accounting) The total sales; turnover.
  • (accounting) The net revenue, net sales.

    • Synonyms

    * (accounting) net sales, turnover

    Derived terms

    * revenuer * revenue stamp

    apanage

    English

    (wikipedia apanage)

    Alternative forms

    * appanage

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A grant (especially by a sovereign) of land (or other source of revenue) as a birthright.
  • * 1942': they suspected that Peter II was only waiting till he had saved enough of his '''apanage to run away to some more civilized country. — Rebecca West, ''Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 1046)
  • A perquisite that is appropriate to one's position.

    • Anagrams

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