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. Bert Colijn:

   As the recovery is likely going to last for quite some time, unemployment is set to rise significantly, although short-time work will help output to recover more quickly once demand returns.

2. Xavier Becerra:

   I'm not worried. I see what Clinton has done. She's released 55,000 pages of emails. She's released her tax returns, she's always been willing to talk. The story that is missing is what we don't know about (presumptive GOP presidential nominee) Donald Trump.

3. The CAGW report:

   As the IRS continues to process tax returns, it should provide a better return on its efforts to prevent the filing of fraudulent returns. The best way to accomplish that goal would be to immediately seek out and utilize existing, successful platforms in the private sector, and then say RIP to the RPP.

4. Dejan Ilijevski:

   High fees only guarantee that more wealth will trickle up from your account to the pockets of your broker or advisor,” says Ilijevski. “Fees and costs squander returns.”

5. The Hitopadesa:

   A bad man, though raised to honour, always returns to his natural course, as a dog?s tail, though warmed by the fire and rubbed with oil, retains its form.*