Returns

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Returns may have one of the following meanings:

• In economic, financial, and marketing affairs:
  • Return (finance), referring to the benefit derived from an investment
  • Return (economics), the benefit distributed to the owner of a factor of production.
  • Abnormal returns, denoting the difference in behaviour between one stock and the overall stockmarket
  • Diminishing returns or diminishing marginal returns, referring to a decrease of efficiency with scaling
  • Return on investment or ROI, a calculation used to decide on the wisdom of an investment
  • Taxes, where tax returns are forms submitted to taxation authorities
• In literature:
  • The Nostoi ("returns"), a lost ancient Greek epic
  • The Return, the title of several works of fiction
  • Return (book), a book by Tetsuo Shimizu
• In politics:
  • Election returns, denoting the resulting tallies of election ballots

[edit] See also

• Return