The interest that an investment gives constitutes its income.
Revenue is the profit or interest obtained from something. For example: “The visiting team could not benefit from the fact of having two more players than its rival on the playing field,” “The deputy accused the mayor of seeking electoral gain with his project,” “I do not obtain any economic gain from "This work: I do it only out of solidarity."
We have to go to Latin, symbolically speaking, to find the etymological origin of the term. And it derives from reditus , which can be translated as “return” and emanates from the verb redire . The latter, for its part, is the result of the sum of two clearly differentiated parts: the prefix re- , which means “backwards” , and the verb ire .
Return on an investment
The notion of return is often used with reference to the interest provided by an investment . In this case, the revenue reflects a certain profitability . If a person makes a fixed term of 10,000 dollars that offers an interest of 8% per year , after a year they will have obtained a return of 800 dollars .
Precisely for all this, anyone who wishes to make a deposit or make an investment must, at first, approximately calculate the return it will provide. Thus, based on the interest rate associated with it, you can clearly stipulate what benefit it will bring you.
An entrepreneur, on the other hand, decides to travel to a spa town to sell crafts during the summer. This man , who invested 5,000 pesos in merchandise and travel expenses, at the end of the season obtained 8,500 pesos . In this way, the income that the activity gave him was 3,500 pesos .
The leader who seeks to obtain electoral benefits instead of addressing the problems of citizens is usually criticized.
Symbolic use of the term
It is also possible to classify symbolic or non-material things as revenue. A tennis player can take advantage of his opponent's fatigue: this means that he will try to take advantage of his opponent's poor physical condition to obtain a victory, trying to play long points and move the other tennis player all over the court .
In the context of politics , the idea of revenue is often used in a negative sense. Because, in theory, politicians should act for the benefit of the community, when someone demonstrates that they are pursuing a personal interest, they are accused of seeking political gain or electoral gain (that is, they act so that people vote for them and not to carry out some contribution to the community).
In our daily lives, electoral revenue has become a widely used term. And it seems that, practically every day, politicians accuse each other of carrying out some type of specific action or comment with the sole objective of obtaining votes in the next elections. In Spain , to mention one case, the PSOE accused the PP years ago of wanting to obtain electoral benefits from the independence situation in Catalonia.
Similarly, in Argentina , former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner at the time accused the opposition of trying to obtain political gain from serious floods that affected part of the country.