How to say "returns" in Japanese

• 収益しゅうえきJLPT N1approx.Common
  nounCovers 'returns' in the financial sense of money earned: earnings, proceeds, or revenue from business activity or investment. Typical of business and accounting talk.
  その投資とうしは現在げんざい６％の収益しゅうえきを彼かれにもたらしている。↗

  The investment now yields him 6%.
• 利潤りじゅんJLPT N1approx.Common
  nounHere 'returns' means profit: the gain made on a business or investment. Choose it when the English 'returns' could be replaced by 'profit'.
  もちろん利潤りじゅんは生産費せいさんひを上回うわまわるべきです。↗

  Benefits of course should exceed the costs.
• 収穫しゅうかくJLPT N3approx.Common
  nounCovers 'returns' figuratively: the fruits, gains, or results of one's labors, as when effort pays off. The word's basic meaning is the harvest of crops.

Use 収益 for returns as money earned (earnings, proceeds, revenue), 利潤 when returns means profit, and 収穫 for the figurative returns — the fruits or rewards of one's efforts.

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• 収益しゅうえきearnings
• 利潤りじゅんprofit
• リターンズreturns
• 得分とくぶんprofit
• 収穫しゅうかくfruits (of one's labors)