revenue base
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrevenueandbase
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revenue
noun[U]
uk/ˈrev.ən.juː/us/ˈrev.ə.nuː/
the income that a government or company ...
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base
adjective
uk/beɪs/us/beɪs/
not showing any honour and having ...
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(Definition ofrevenueandbasefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofrevenue base
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Since expenses and resources were relatively stable, the traditionalrevenuebase, yielding lowinterest but regular revenues, did not present a problem.
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Officially (after the distribution), the surplus was nearly $20 million on arevenuebaseof $51 million.
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The declining emphasis of business on tariffs over time weakened both therevenuebaseand political support for generous pensions.
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Because therevenuebaseis so low in many municipalities, even if the constitutionally mandated percentage is directed toward primary education, the amount spent per child is woefully inadequate.
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Utility fees from trading services comprised 32 % of therevenuebaseof municipalities in 1999/2000, with electricity charges making up the largest share followed by water.
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One should add here the effect of therevenuebaseon the state's responses to rebellion, since it also affects the capacity of the state to wage war.
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These high and growing fixed costs depend upon a reducingrevenuebase.
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They simply do not have therevenuebaseto pay their full share.
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There will thus be a correspondingly smaller difference between therevenuebaseof that authority under rates and its revenue base under community charge.
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The capital needs a strong and effective strategic authority with a buoyantrevenuebase.
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If we deliberately ignore the fact that certain tax cuts produce more revenue by enlarging therevenuebase, we shall find ourselves severely constrained.
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The decliningrevenuebaseof corporation tax was becoming something of a national scandal.
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It would obviously need a measure of equalisation for the regions and districts that do not have therevenuebase.
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Internationally we are a country with a wide range of local services but with a low localrevenuebase.
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By increasing theirrevenuebasefrom that additional sum of money, we could ensure that those deficits were eliminated over a three-year period.
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They know about the basic sums in public finance and that, to pay for important services, we must have a securerevenuebase.
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I do not deny that there is a highrevenuebasewhich reduces domestic and commercial rates, but the burdens imposed by the oil terminals must be borne in mind.
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The cost of its travel time is distributed over a greaterrevenuebase, so cost efficiency improves.
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Other major measures included the large-scale retrenchment of officials to achieve savings, as well as efforts to reclaim tax-exempt lands and expand therevenuebase.
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The collapse in real estate valuations had a negative on-flow effect on the city'srevenuebase.
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