If used correctly, "monetary return" is a valid phrase in written English.
It refers to the financial reward or compensation received in exchange for something, such as work or an investment. Example: The company promised a high monetary return to investors who put their money into the new project.
Piketty defines capital as any asset that generates a monetary return.
Less comforting was Mr. Moore's assurance that Chinese film investors would be looking not so much for monetary return as cultural influence.
"Hit folks over the head and tell them how good we are and, in exchange, there's a monetary return for us".
Properties outside the mission should be considered commercial assets, from which the Vatican should try to gain the best possible monetary return.
Absentee owners claim ignorance of standard practices, yet blindly pressure trainers for a monetary return on their investment in a racehorse, which in the vast majority of cases is a financial investment, not a labor of love.
Although at the individual level both types may provide a monetary return to the investor, from the standpoint of the entire economy, purely financial investments appear only as title transfers and do not constitute an addition to productive capacity.
Indeed, investors often fetishise monetary returns without thinking about the world in which those monetary returns will have to be spent.
Businesses require monetary returns on their investments; projects must be "bankable".
People would be far better off with lower monetary returns within a healthier environment to enjoy those returns in, than they are with higher monetary returns in a compromised, unstable world.
While the economic incentive does not exist for developed countries to recover metals in low concentrations, the monetary returns prove worthwhile in many developing ones.
Talking in terms of monetary returns may get the ear of investors, but only at the risk of implicitly legitimising that existing rationality.
