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revenue stream

revenue stream

18 3.9
A regular way that a business or organization earns money
  • noun
  • /ˈrɛvəˌnu strim/
translation icon : fuente de ingresos
  • Many businesses seek to diversify their sources of income to create multiple revenue streams.
  • provide a revenue stream
  • new revenue stream
  • generate a revenue stream

How do you choose the revenue stream that's best suited for you and your team?

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Examples

  • The organization relies on donations as a regular revenue stream to fund its programs.

  • Subscription services have become a popular revenue stream for many online companies.

  • So I needed to find a way to, to produce a revenue stream for me.

  • That book is a whole new revenue stream for me.

  • Apparently it's her second revenue stream.

  • Did you need another revenue stream?

  • Everybody is looking for new revenue streams.

  • "Now it's a major portion of our revenue stream."

    Academic text (2016)
  • The partnership creates a new revenue stream to complement other forms of digital distribution.

    Blog text (4)
  • Thus, private forest owners and landowners need to find new revenue streams.

    Academic text (2004)

How Reliable

revenue stream
18 3.9
income
1.2
payoff
25 4.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

revenue + stream

The meaning 'a regular source of income' is directly derivable from combining 'revenue' (income) with 'stream' (a steady flow). The metaphor of a 'stream' of money is common cross-linguistically and follows a transparent noun+noun compositional pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would likely understand the MWE.

Etymology

Revenue stream comes from a simple picture: revenue is the money a business earns and a stream is a steady flow of water, so imagine money flowing into a company like a small river. That's why it means a regular 'source of income'.