Phrase Hound found 28 phrases and 2 compound words that contain returns. The most common are listed below. Open returns in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 28
- tax returnsplural of tax return: A declaration of income etc. for tax purposes: a report of income, deductions, contributions, and related financial information filed by a taxpayer with a national or local tax authority, used by the authority to …
- returns to scalea function describing how returns scale when production increases in the long run
- returns to formplural of return to form: A return to a former state of success or brilliance.
- income tax returnsplural of income tax return: An official document that income tax payers are required to complete to state income amounts, deductions, contributions and related financial information for tax purposes.
- returns on investmentplural of return on investment: A benefit, usually financial, gained by an investor from an investment.
- many happy returnsA greeting, usually for birthdays, in reference to the passing year; Happy birthday!
- day returnsplural of day return: A reduced-price fare and ticket for a journey on public transport out and back in one day.
- diminishing returnsA condition in which additional inputs into an organization, project or process produce progressively fewer or lower-quality additional outputs, and may, in extreme cases, cause the total quantity or quality of outputs to decrease.
- returns the favorthird-person singular simple present indicative of return the favor: To do something for someone, or to someone, similar to what they did for you or to you (whether good or bad).
- excess returnsplural of excess return: The return that exceeds the risk-free return.
- returns to dustthird-person singular simple present indicative of return to dust: To die.
- book returnsplural of book return: A facility of a library that accepts the return of books.
- early returnsplural of early return: The act of returning from a function before reaching the end of that function.
- hard returnsplural of hard return: The type of newline that represents the semantic concept of a paragraph break (as opposed to the type that represents merely a line break in word wrap); sometimes represented visually with the pilcrow character (¶).
- returns firethird-person singular simple present indicative of return fire: The firing initiated after receiving incoming fire.
- side returnsplural of side return: An outdoor passage alongside a house or other building, forming part of the property and typically leading to the back garden.
- total returnsplural of total return: The measure of the performance of different companies' stocks and shares over a period of time.
- ball returnsplural of ball return: A rack for bowling balls at the start of a bowling lane, where the balls are transported after returning from the pinsetter.
- Saturn returnsplural of Saturn return: A transit in which Saturn returns to the position it occupied at the moment of a person's birth, occurring for the first time from age 27 to 30 and said to be a time of change, challenge, and maturation.
- soft returnsplural of soft return: The type of newline that represents either a natural line break resulting from word wrap, or one specifically inserted inside a paragraph (not between paragraphs); sometimes represented visually with a bent-arrow …
- carriage returnsplural of carriage return: On a typewriter or computer printer, the action that returns it to the beginning of the next line.
- returns the favourthird-person singular simple present indicative of return the favour: To do something for someone, or to someone, similar to what they did for you or to you (whether good or bad).
- law of diminishing returnsThe tendency for a continuing effort toward a particular goal to decline in effectiveness after a certain amount of success has been achieved.
- warrant returnsplural of warrant return: A file returned by an electronic service provider in response to a search warrant containing user data.
- sequence-of-returns riskThe risk of a portfolio depletion planned over time (particularly retirement years) being negatively impacted by subaverage portfolio performance in its beginning.
Compound words 2
- misreturnsplural of misreturn: The return of a process or other document that was done improperly.
- returnshipsplural of returnship: An internship-like program for experienced workers seeking to reenter the workforce after an extended period, particularly in a new line of work.