🏠 To come back 🏠 Coming back 🔄 To give back 🔄 Getting back 🤝 To reply or respond 🤝 A response 💰 A profit 💰 To give profit 🧾 Tax document 🎾 A hit back 📄 To submit officially ⌨️ Keyboard key

to return

55 3.6

Make a profit from an investment or business

verb
/rɪˈtɜrn/

Specialized

: rendir

The literature on the economic returns to community college participation is extensive.
return an investment
return results
return approximately

It means that some maths thing returns the value Infinity.

Examples

We asked the respondents to return the completed survey by November 1, 1995.

Academic text (1997)
I believe he's working very hard to return the money to me.

Splinter (2023)
How can we be certain that our money will be returned in the long run?

Fiction book (1996)
Clearly, companies are receiving significant value and return from their PLM investments.

Academic text (2011)
It has returned, year to date, 15.4%.

Arbitrage (2012)
In general, each dollar invested in pesticide control returns approximately $4 in crops saved.

Academic text (1992)
Investing in green technology can return significant profits to shareholders.
Her investment in the startup returned double the amount she had initially put in.
Many investors were pleased to see their contributions return impressive yields this quarter.

Synonyms

to give

vsto return

∞ 1.0

To cause a result, feeling, or change

applies to producing financial gain specifically rather than general supply

to generate

vsto return

537 3.2

To make something that did not exist before

focuses on producing profit from an asset rather than general production

to yield

vsto return

183 3.6

To produce something, often a profit or result

is specifically about money or measurable gains from investments

to render

vsto return

53 3.9

To give something to another person or authority, often formally

means producing profit rather than transferring possession or service

Antonyms

loss

695 2.1

Money lost by a business or person

Idioms

in return

330 2.4

To do something for someone because they did something for you

to return to dust

Literature

1 8.3

To slowly fall apart and disappear over time

to return to form

1 4.6

Get back to a previous good level of ability after a time of decline

by return of post

Archaic

8.4

Send something as soon as possible by the next post

to return to muttons

9.9

To go back to the main topic or task after a distraction

Phrasal Verbs

to return the favor

Informal

57 2.9

Do something helpful for someone who helped you

to return from the dead

5 7.9

To come back to life or appear again after people thought it was gone

to file a tax return

Formal

3 3.5

Officially send a completed form showing your income and taxes you owe

to return to roost

4.8

Come back to the place where birds sleep after being away

Compounds

tax return

76 3.2

An official paper you send to the tax office that shows your income to work out tax

return address

21 1.8

The sender's details on an envelope that show where to send it back if not delivered

point of no return

18 5.5

A moment in a process after which you cannot go back

return on investment

Specialized

15 3.5

How much money you gain from putting money into something, shown as a percent

rate of return

Specialized

14 4.8

Profit or loss on an investment shown as a percent of its cost

income tax return

Formal

8 3.6

A form you send to the tax office showing your income and expenses

return ticket

5 1.0

A ticket that lets you go to a place and return on the same route

joint return

Formal

3 5.6

A tax return that a married couple files together to report their combined income and deductions

amended return

Specialized

1 6.4

A tax form sent to correct information filed earlier with the tax office

happy return

Archaic

1 5.1

A wish that someone will enjoy many happy birthdays

carriage return

Specialized

1 7.0

A key or action that moves the cursor to the start of a new line

day return

1 2.3

A ticket to travel to a place and back on the same day

return key

1 2.1

A key on a keyboard that moves the cursor to a new line or starts a new command

estimated tax return

Specialized

7.0

A form to pay tax you expect to owe when not enough tax is taken from your pay

exponential return

Specialized

7.2

A change that grows or falls faster over time by a fixed percent

false return

Jargon

9.1

A tax report that gives untrue information to avoid paying tax

false return

Specialized

7.3

A function result of false that shows the action failed

information return

Formal

6.8

A document sent to the tax office that reports financial transactions without calculating tax owed

return of post

Archaic

8.5

A reply by mail sent on the next delivery

return on invested capital

Specialized

5.3

A percent showing how well a company makes profit from the money put into it

How Much

to reap

104 3.1

to return

Specialized

55 3.6

to bring in

123 2.8

to generate

537 3.2

to produce

∞ 2.0

Surface Forms

return infinitive

returned past

returned past participle

returning present participle

returns third person singular

Morphology

return = turn (semi-transparent) = re + turn

The financial sense 'to produce or yield' is an abstracted extension of 'what comes back' but is specialized and not strictly predictable from the literal motion sense of 'turn'.

Etymology

Return in money or production comes from the idea of what 'comes back' to you, so if an investment returns money it 'gives back' profit or goods.