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ROI
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ROI mean?
• ROI (noun)
The noun ROI has 1 sense:
1. (corporate finance) the amount, expressed as a percentage, that is earned on a company's total capital calculated by dividing the total capital into earnings before interest, taxes, or dividends are paid
Familiarity information: ROI used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(corporate finance) the amount, expressed as a percentage, that is earned on a company's total capital calculated by dividing the total capital into earnings before interest, taxes, or dividends are paid
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
return on invested capital; return on investment; ROI
Hypernyms ("ROI" is a kind of...):
rate of return (the amount returned per unit of time expressed as a percentage of the cost)
Domain category:
corporate finance (the financial activities of corporation)
Context examples
A specific area of interest defined by a sequence of image overlays or a sequence of contours described as a single point (for a point ROI) or more than one point (representing and open or closed polygon).
(Imaging Region of Interest, NCI Thesaurus)
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