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In business, economics, and finance
- Return (finance) In finance, rate of return , also known as return on investment (ROI), rate of profit or sometimes just return, is the ratio of money gained or lost (whether realized or unrealized) on an investment relative to the amount of money invested. The amount of money gained or lost may be referred to as interest, profit/loss, gain/loss, or net income/, the financial term for the profit or loss derived from an investment
- Tax return, a form submitted to taxation authorities
- Returning In retail, returning is the process of a customer taking previously purchased merchandise back to the retailer, and in turn, receiving a cash refund, exchange for another item , or a store credit. Many retailers will accept returns provided that the customer has a receipt as a proof of purchase, and that certain other conditions, which depend on, the process of bring back merchandise to a retailer for a refund or exchange
- Return (economics) Wages are the return to labor—the return to an individual's involvement in the creation or realization of goods or services. Wages are realized by an individual supplier of labor even if the supplier is the self. A person gathering mushrooms in a national forest for the purpose of personal consumption is realizing wages in the form of mushrooms, the benefit distributed to the owner of a factor of production.
- Abnormal return In finance, an abnormal return is the difference between the expected return of a security and the actual return. Abnormal returns are sometimes triggered by "events." Events can include mergers, dividend announcements, company earning announcements, interest rate increases, lawsuits, etc. all which can contribute to an abnormal return, denoting the difference in behaviour between one stock and the overall stockmarket
- Taxes To tax is to impose a financial charge or other levy upon a taxpayer (an individual or legal entity) by a state or the functional equivalent of a state such that failure to pay is punishable by law, where tax returns are forms submitted to taxation authorities
- Return on investment In finance, rate of return , also known as return on investment (ROI), rate of profit or sometimes just return, is the ratio of money gained or lost (whether realized or unrealized) on an investment relative to the amount of money invested. The amount of money gained or lost may be referred to as interest, profit/loss, gain/loss, or net income/ (ROI), a calculation used to decide on the wisdom of an investment
In technology
- Return (architecture) ^ This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain, the receding edge of a flat face
- Carriage return Originally, carriage return was the term for the control character in Baudot code on a teletypewriter for end of line return to beginning of line and did not include line feed. Later it was used for a mechanism or lever on a typewriter that would cause the cylinder on which the paper was held to return to the left side of the paper after a line of, a key on an alphanumeric keyboard commonly equated with the "enter" key
- Return statement In computer programming, a return statement causes execution to leave the current subroutine and resume at the point in the code immediately after where the subroutine was called — known as its return address. The return address is saved, usually on the process's call stack, as part of the operation of making the subroutine call. Return, a computer programming statement that ends a subroutine and resumes execution where the subroutine was called
- Aux-return, the input complement of an Aux-send Aux-send is a feature of a professional multi-channel sound mixing console which provides an effects loop, allowing the insertion and level control of outboard audio processing to be added to an audio source or channel within the mixing console. This feature is typically found on mixing consoles that are in recording, concert and broadcast output
In entertainment
- Return (film), a film directed by Jerzy Passendorfer Jerzy Passendorfer was a Polish film director, specialising in films about the German occupation of Poland in World War II, and member of parliament
- Volver Volver (Literally: to return , pronounced [bolˈβer]) is a 2006 Spanish film by director Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish film (title translates as the verb "to return")
- Wide Awake (2007 film) Wide Awake is a 2007 South Korean film, a South Korean film also known as Return
- Return (album) David Rovics is an indie singer/songwriter and grassroots political protestor from the United States. His music is most accurately described as protest-folk and concerns topical subjects such as the 2003 Iraq war, anti-globalisation and social justice issues. Rovics is an outspoken critic of not only George W. Bush and the Republican Party, but, an album by folk artist David Rovics
- Return (band) Return is a Norwegian rock band from Stange, Hedmark. The band started in 1980, and was in its prime in the late 1980- and early 1990-. In this period they had several singles on the Norwegian hit charts and were among the bestselling bands in the country. In 1993 the band took a break, but came back in 2001 with a collection and some gigs. In 2005, a Norwegian 80s pop/rock band
- "Return", a song by OK Go from their 2002 album OK Go (album)
- "Return", a song from Let It Ride (album) by Shed Seven
In politics
- Return (Transnistria), a European political party
- Election An election is a formal decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy operates since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes in the executive and judiciary, and for regional and local returns, denoting the resulting tallies of election ballots
Other
- In gridiron football (American or Canadian), "return" can refer to either:
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- Kickoff return
- Punt return In American and Canadian football a punt return is one of the punt receiving team's options to respond to a punt. A player positioned many yards from the line of scrimmage will attempt to catch or pick up the ball after it is punted by the opposing team's punter. They will then attempt to carry the ball as far as possible back in the direction of
- Nostoi The Nostoi is a lost epic of ancient Greek literature. It was one of the Epic Cycle, that is, the "Trojan" cycle, which told the entire history of the Trojan War in epic verse. The story of the Nostoi comes chronologically after that of the Iliou persis (Sack of Ilium), and is followed by that of the Odyssey. The author of the Nostoi is ("Returns"), a lost ancient Greek epic
- Diminishing returns In economics, diminishing returns refers to how the marginal production of a factor of production starts to progressively decrease as the factor is increased, in contrast to the increase that would otherwise be normally expected. According to this relationship, in a production system with fixed and variable inputs (say factory size and labor), , referring to a decrease of efficiency with scaling
See also
- The Return
- Return channel In communications systems that use star topologies, the return channel is the transmission link from a user terminal to the central hub
- DVB Digital Video Broadcasting is a suite of internationally accepted open standards for digital television. DVB standards are maintained by the DVB Project, an international industry consortium with more than 270 members, and they are published by a Joint Technical Committee (JTC) of European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), European-Return Channel System
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