gross vs revenue

gross

verb
  • To earn money, not including expenses. 

noun
  • The total nominal earnings or amount, before taxes, expenses, exceptions or similar are deducted. That which remains after all deductions is called net. 

  • Twelve dozen = 144. 

  • The bulk, the mass, the masses. 

adj
  • Lacking refinement; not of high quality. 

  • Lacking refinement in behaviour or manner; offending a standard of morality. 

  • Heavy in proportion to one's height; having a lot of excess flesh. 

  • Highly or conspicuously offensive. 

  • Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed. 

  • Excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts. 

  • Difficult or impossible to see through. 

  • Causing disgust. 

revenue

verb
  • To generate revenue. 

  • To supply with revenue. 

noun
  • All income generated for some political entity's treasury by taxation and other means. 

  • The net income from normal business operations; net sales. 

  • The income returned by an investment. 

  • The total sales; turnover. 

  • A return; something paid back. 

  • The total income received from a given source. 

How often have the words gross and revenue occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )