1. (企业一定时期的)销售额，收入
You can use takings to refer to the amount of money that a business such as a shop or a cinema gets from selling its goods or tickets during a particular period.

1. the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property

e.g. the average return was about 5%

Synonym: returnissuetakeproceedsyieldpayoff