ROI

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return on investment.

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How to use ROI in a sentence

Others are here to invest in artists with promising reputations, and thus the possibility of future ROI.
Sneer and Clothing in Miami: Inside The $3 Billion Woodstock of Contemporary Art|Jay Michaelson|December 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
That kind of independence has a much better ROI than the stock market.
A Declaration of Financial Independence|Megan McArdle|February 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST
It's true that subsidizing insurance costs might improve the ROI of the business.
The Non-Problem that ObamaCare Didn't Fix|Megan McArdle|September 19, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Time to bring in Hamas from the cold, argues Israeli writer Roi Ben-Yehuda.
Bring Hamas to the Table|Roi Ben-Yehuda|September 4, 2010|DAILY BEAST

Roi Ben-Yehuda is an Israeli writer based in the U.S. His work has been featured in Haaretz, Al Jazeera and France 24.
Elvis Costello Snubs Israel|Roi Ben-Yehuda|May 20, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Le roi pouvait crer ce duch en sa faveur, sans blesser aucune susceptibilit militaire.
Notes and Queries, Number 177, March 19, 1853|Various
The result was the state of things described with only pardonable exaggeration in Edmond About's amusing Roi de la montagne.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3|Various
The minions had not allowed him to be ignorant of what had passed, and he had heard the people cry, "Vive le roi!"
Chicot the Jester|Alexandre Dumas, Pere
Oui, le roi de Prusse m'a envoy son crit contre l'Essai sur les prjugs.
Baron d'Holbach|Max Pearson Cushing
I know that for her sake I wished to look as much le roi as it was in me to look.
The Rose of Old St. Louis|Mary Dillon

British Dictionary definitions for ROI

ROI

abbreviation for

Republic of Ireland

finance return on investment

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