return on investment

English

Noun

return on investment (countable and uncountable, plural returns on investment)

1. (finance) A benefit, usually financial, gained by an investor from an investment.
   • 2025 October 1, Chris Edwards, “Digital network”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 27:

     Researchers believe automated coupling would save time and cost, but there are questions about the return on investment when it comes to retrofitting old wagons.

Synonyms

• ROI

Translations

benefit gained by an investor from an investment

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 投資回報率 / 投资回报率 (tóuzī huíbàolǜ)

• Dutch: rendement op investering n
• Esperanto: rendimento el investo
• Finnish: sijoitetun pääoman tuotto
• French: retour sur investissement (fr) m
• Georgian: მოგება საინვესტიციო კაპიტალიდან (mogeba sainvesṭicio ḳaṗiṭalidan)
• Hungarian: tőkehozam, befektetés/beruházás megtérülése
• Indonesian: pengembalian investasi, balik modal
• Italian: ritorno sull'investimento m, ritorno sugli investimenti m
• Japanese: 投資収益率 (とうししゅうえきりつ, tōshi shūeki-ritsu)
• Korean: 투자자본수익률(投資資本收益率) (tujajabonsu'ingnyul)
• Malay: pulangan pelaburan
• Polish: zwrot z inwestycji m
• Portuguese: retorno do investimento m
• Russian: окупаемость (ru) (okupajemostʹ)
• Spanish: retorno de la inversión m, retorno sobre los costos m, rendimiento de inversión m
• Tagalog: balik ng puhunan
• Vietnamese: hoàn vốn đầu tư

See also

• EROI