Finance, investment: profit on a securities or capital investment, usually expressed as an annual percentage rate.
Retailing: exchange of previously sold merchandise for refund or credit against future sales.
Taxes: form on which taxpayers submit information required by the government when they file with the Internal Revenue Service. For example, Form 1040 is a tax return used by individual taxpayers.
Trade: physical return of merchandise for credit against an invoice.
- the keyboard key that transmits ASCII code 13 (CR), normally the same as the Enter key. See CR.
- to give a value as a result of a computation. For example, in many programming languages, sqrt(2) returns the square root of 2.
Returning a value is not the same as printing it out; returning a value makes it available for further computation, as in sqrt(2)+3.
- in C and related languages, the statement that causes the computer to exit a function or subroutine and return to the program that called it. For example, return x; means "exit, returning the value of x as the value of the function," and return; means "exit, returning no value."
Finance and investment: profit on a securities or capital investment, usually expressed as an annual percentage rate. see also rate of return ; return on equity; return on invested capital ; return on sales; total return .
Retailing: exchange of previously sold merchandise for refund or credit against future sales.
Taxes: form on which taxpayers submit information required by the government when they file with the Internal Revenue Service. For example, Form 1040 is the tax return used by individual taxpayers.
Trade: physical return of merchandise for credit against an invoice.
