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
  • In politics:
    • Election returns, denoting the resulting tallies of election ballots

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