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ROI

American  
Or R.O.I.
  1. return on investment.


ROI British  

abbreviation

  1. Republic of Ireland

  2. finance return on investment

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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You have to get employees to start using AI, and then you have the real question of whether the juice is worth the squeeze from an ROI perspective.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

The ROI on enterprise adoption continues to be hit-or-miss, driven in part by companies struggle to integrate AI tools into corporate systems and customize them for specific business needs.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

The relevant comparison is between investing and holding ground against competitors or not investing appropriately and losing it, a trade-off that never shows up in an ROI calculation.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

Now, as AI agents become more widely adopted, it remains a matter of debate whether the technology’s ROI can be clearly calculated.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

He had just landed his big-time business job doing whatever he does with numbers and money and ROI, and was going to help my mother open up her own therapy office.

From "Sunny" by Jason Reynolds

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