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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

arrecadação de receitas

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ɐʁekɐdaˈsɐ̃w dʒi ʁeˈsejtɐs

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Revenue-collection/ˈrɛv.əˌnuː kəˈlɛk.ʃən/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"A arrecadação de receitas públicas aumentou no trimestre."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The systematic process of gathering income, taxes, duties, or fees by a government, organization, or institution.

    "The government implemented new digital measures to improve efficiency in revenue-collection across all sectors."
  2. 2

    The total amount or function of funds acquired through fiscal levies and commercial operations.

    "A delay in the revenue-collection cycle temporarily impacted municipal budget allocations."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the combination of 'revenue' (from Old French 'revenu', past participle of 'revenir', meaning 'to return') and 'collection' (from Late Latin 'collectionem', meaning 'a gathering together'). The compound term solidified in modern financial and administrative terminology during the 19th century to describe institutional and governmental mechanisms of gathering income and taxes.

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