Synonyms for returns
re·turns

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1. returns

   The returns or receipts include all that is received from an outlay or investment; the profit is the excess (if any) of the receipts over the outlay; hence, in government, morals, etc., the profit is what is really good, helpful, useful, valuable. Utility is chiefly used in the sense of some immediate or personal and generally some material good. Advantage is that which gives one a vantage-ground, either for coping with competitors or with difficulties, needs, or demands; as to have the advantage of a good education; it is frequently used of what one has beyond another or secures at the expense of another; as, to have the advantage of another in an argument, or to take advantage of another in a bargain. Gain is what one secures beyond what he previously possessed. Benefit is anything that does one good. Emolument is profit, return, or value accruing through official position. Expediency has respect to profit or advantage, real or supposed, considered apart from or perhaps in opposition to right, in actions having a moral character. Compare UTILITY.

   Synonyms:
   advantage, avail, benefit, emolument, expediency, gain, good, improvement, proceeds, profit, receipts, return, service, usefulness, utility, value

   Antonyms:
   damage, destruction, detriment, disadvantage, harm, hurt, injury, loss, ruin, waste

   Preposition:
   The profit of labor; on capital; in business.

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1. returnsnoun

   Synonyms:
   proceeds, profits, avails

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1. List of paraphrases for "returns":

   yields, return, statements, declarations, returned, returnees, repatriations, performance, speeches, yield, profits, revenues, reverts, reports, refoulements, refunds, proceeds

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1. Kunal Ghosh:

   If you become dogmatic about the acronym and devote 100 percent of your assets to BRIC, you will get poor returns.

2. Joshua Duitz:

   The day was a good commercial or infomercial for Brazil. Rousseff was saying the right things. However, the next step is to see what they implement... I'm mildly optimistic on Brazil after listening today, but I'll hold off on my final judgment for now, as an investor, if the new infrastructure projects actual rate of returns match up with investors' expectations that will tell me they are serious about utilizing the private sector to invest in infrastructure projects.

3. Sujeeva Dissanayake:

   I have decided not to send my son to school until the country returns to normal.

4. Steve Rosenthal:

   There's a variety of legitimate reasons for why Ways and Means would seek the president's tax returns.

5. Cohenif Trump:

   What you do is, you deflate the value of the asset and then you put in a request to the tax department for a deduction, and would it help for the committee to obtain federal and state tax returns from the president and his company to address that discrepancy?