Return

Return may refer to:

In business, economics, and finance

• Rate of return, the financial term for the profit or loss derived from an investment
• Tax return (disambiguation), various meanings relating to taxation
• Returning, the process of bring back merchandise to a retailer for a refund or exchange
• Return (economics), the benefit distributed to the owner of a factor of production.
• Abnormal return, denoting the difference in behaviour between one stock and the overall stockmarket
• Taxes, where tax returns are forms submitted to taxation authorities

In technology

• Return (architecture), the receding edge of a flat face
• Carriage return, a key on an alphanumeric keyboard commonly equated with the "enter" key
• Return statement, a computer programming statement that ends a subroutine and resumes execution where the subroutine was called
• Aux-return, the input complement of an Aux-send output

In entertainment

Film

• Powrót (Polish for "Return"), a 1960 film directed by Jerzy Passendorfer
• Return (1985), a film directed by Andrew Silver (producer)
• Volver (Spanish for "to return"), a 2006 film directed by Pedro Almodóvar
• Wide Awake (2007 film), a South Korean film also known as Return
• Return (2010), (Finnish for "Kotiinpaluu") a film directed by Harri J. Rantala
• Return (2011), an independent film directed by Liza Johnson

Television

• "Return" (Law & Order), an episode of Law & Order

Music

• Return (album), an album by folk artist David Rovics
• Return (band), a Norwegian 80s pop/rock band
• "Return", a song by OK Go from their 2002 album OK Go (album)
• "Return", a song from Let It Ride (album) by Shed Seven
• "Return", a song by The Wedding from their EP The Sound, The Steel
• "Returns", an album by Return to Forever

Literature

• "Return", The Manga (1994) by Miura Noriko
• Return (Manga) (2009) webcomic by David Curieses (Spanish)

In politics

• Return (Transnistria), a European political party
• Election returns, denoting the resulting tallies of election ballots

Other

• In gridiron football (American or Canadian), "return" can refer to either:

• Kickoff return
• Punt return

• Nostoi ("Returns"), a lost ancient Greek epic
• Diminishing returns , referring to a decrease of efficiency with scaling

See also

• The Return (disambiguation)
• Return channel
• DVB-Return Channel System