RETURN ON INVESTMENT

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(corporate finance) the amount, expressed as a percentage, that is earned on a company's total capital calculated by dividing the total capital into earnings before interest, taxes, or dividends are paid

Synonyms:

return on invested capital; return on investment; ROI

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("return on investment" is a kind of...):

rate of return (the amount returned per unit of time expressed as a percentage of the cost)

Domain category:

corporate finance (the financial activities of corporation)

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