return on equity

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noun Accounting.

the amount of profit computed by dividing net income before taxes less preferred dividends by the value of stockholders' equity, usually expressed as a percentage. Abbreviation: ROE

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Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
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Would the Democrats rescind those rights if they were to return to power?
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Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
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You just travel light with carry-on luggage, go to cities that you love, and get to hang out with all your friends.
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It was a brick wall that we turned into the on-ramp of a highway.
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All things that are of the earth, shall return to the earth again, and all waters shall return to the sea.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
They feel that the system has few advantages to offer in return for the cost it entails upon them.
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It being offensive to the French, they took none of it with them on their return.
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After the battle of the Pyramids he fell sick, and before the Syrian expedition, applied to return to France.
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He decided not to return home directly; he wanted to go somewhere, but did not care to stay in Chicago.
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