"return on investment" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: returns on investment [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|returns on investment}} return on investment (plural returns on investment)
  1. (finance) A benefit gained by an investor from an investment. Wikipedia link: return on investment Categories (topical): Finance Synonyms: ROI Related terms: EROI Translations (benefit gained by an investor from an investment): 投資回報率 (Chinese Mandarin), 投资回报率 (tóuzī huíbàolǜ) (Chinese Mandarin), rendement op investering [neuter] (Dutch), rendimento el investo (Esperanto), sijoitetun pääoman tuotto (Finnish), retour sur investissement [masculine] (French), მოგება საინვესტიციო კაპიტალიდან (mogeba sainvesṭicio ḳaṗiṭalidan) (Georgian), tőkehozam (Hungarian), befektetés/beruházás megtérülése (Hungarian), pengembalian investasi (Indonesian), ritorno sull'investimento [masculine] (Italian), ritorno sugli investimenti [masculine] (Italian), 投資収益率 (tōshi shūeki-ritsu) (alt: とうししゅうえきりつ) (Japanese), 투자자본수익률 (tujajabonsu'ingnyul) (alt: 投資資本收益率) (Korean), pulangan pelaburan (Malay), zwrot z inwestycji [masculine] (Polish), окупаемость (okupajemostʹ) (Russian), retorno de la inversión (Spanish), balik ng puhunan (Tagalog), hoàn vốn đầu tư (Vietnamese)

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      "sense": "benefit gained by an investor from an investment",
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      "sense": "benefit gained by an investor from an investment",
      "word": "retorno de la inversión"
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      "word": "balik ng puhunan"
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