return on investment

Questions about return on investment

What is another word for return on investment?

It depends which return on investment you mean. In the sense “(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”, the synonyms are return on invested capital, ROI. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of return on investment?

WordNet records no antonym for return on investment. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for return on investment come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of return on investment

• Full entry for return on investmentAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for return on investmentWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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