The difference between Gaincoming and Return
When used as nouns, gaincoming means return, whereas return means the act of returning.
Return is also verb with the meaning: to come or go back (to a place or person).
check bellow for the other definitions of Gaincoming and Return
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Gaincoming as a noun (obsolete):
Return; a coming again; second coming or advent.
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Return as a verb (intransitive):
To come or go back (to a place or person).
Examples:
"Although the birds fly north for the summer, they return here in winter."
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Return as a verb (intransitive):
To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
Examples:
"To return to my story..."
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Return as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):
To turn back, retreat.
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Return as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To turn (something) round.
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Return as a verb (transitive):
To place or put back something where it had been.
Examples:
"Please return your hands to your lap."
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Return as a verb (transitive):
To give something back to its original holder or owner.
Examples:
"You should return the library book within one month."
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Return as a verb (transitive):
To take back something to a vendor for a refund.
Examples:
"If the goods don't work, you can return them."
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Return as a verb:
To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
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Return as a verb (tennis):
To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
Examples:
"The player couldn't return the serve because it was so fast."
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Return as a verb (card games):
To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
Examples:
"If one players plays a trump, the others must return a trump."
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Return as a verb (cricket):
To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
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Return as a verb (transitive):
To say in reply; to respond.
Examples:
"to return an answer;  to return thanks"
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Return as a verb (intransitive, computing):
To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
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Return as a verb (transitive, computing):
To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
Examples:
"This function returns the number of files in the directory."
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Return as a verb (transitive, dated):
To retort; to throw back.
Examples:
"to return the lie"
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Return as a verb (transitive):
To report, or bring back and make known.
Examples:
"to return the result of an election"
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Return as a verb (by extension, UK):
To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
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Return as a noun:
The act of returning.
Examples:
"I expect the house to be spotless upon my return."
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Return as a noun:
A return ticket.
Examples:
"Do you want a one-way or a return?"
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Return as a noun:
An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
Examples:
"Last year there were 250 returns of this product, an improvement on the 500 returns the year before."
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Return as a noun:
An answer.
Examples:
"a return to one's question"
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Return as a noun:
An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc.; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.
Examples:
"election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold"
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Return as a noun:
Gain or loss from an investment.
Examples:
"It yielded a return of 5%."
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Return as a noun (taxation, finance):
A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts. A tax return.
Examples:
"Hand in your return by the end of the tax year."
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Return as a noun (computing):
A carriage return character.
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Return as a noun (computing):
The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
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Return as a noun (computing):
A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
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Return as a noun:
A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
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Return as a noun (American football):
Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
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Return as a noun (cricket):
A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
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Return as a noun (architecture):
The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, such as a moulding; applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer.
Examples:
"A facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south."