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(v. i.) To turn back |
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(v. i.) To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular |
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(v. i.) To speak in answer |
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(v. i.) To revert |
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(v. i.) To go back in thought, narration, or argument. |
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(v. t.) To bring, carry, send, or turn, back |
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(v. t.) To repay |
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(v. t.) To give in requital or recompense |
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(v. t.) To give back in reply |
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(v. t.) To retort |
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(v. t.) To report, or bring back and make known. |
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(v. t.) To render, as an account, usually an official account, to a superior |
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(v. t.) Hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers. |
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(v. t.) To bring or send back to a tribunal, or to an office, with a certificate of what has been done |
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(v. t.) To convey into official custody, or to a general depository. |
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(v. t.) To bat (the ball) back over the net. |
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(v. t.) To lead in response to the lead of one's partner |
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(n.) The act of returning (intransitive), or coming back to the same place or condition |
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(n.) The act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the same place or condition |
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(n.) That which is returned. |
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(n.) A payment |
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(n.) An answer |
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(n.) An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, and the like |
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(n.) The profit on, or advantage received from, labor, or an investment, undertaking, adventure, etc. |
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(n.) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, as a molding or mold |
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(n.) The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court. |
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(n.) The certificate of an officer stating what he has done in execution of a writ, precept, etc., indorsed on the document. |
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(n.) The sending back of a commission with the certificate of the commissioners. |
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(n.) A day in bank. See Return day, below. |
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(n.) An official account, report, or statement, rendered to the commander or other superior officer |
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(n.) The turnings and windings of a trench or mine. |
reappearance
return | the act of someone appearing again, his reappearance as Hamlet has been long awaited |
| return homecoming | a coming to or returning home, on his return from Australia we gave him a welcoming party |
restitution
return restoration regaining | getting something back again, upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing |
| return | the act of going back to a prior location, they set out on their return to the base camp |
| return | (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble |
| return | a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player, he won the point on a crossourt return |
return paying back
getting even | a reciprocal group action, in return we gave them as good as we got |
return key
return | the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed |
Rubicon
point of no return | a line that when crossed permits of no return and typically results in irrevocable commitment |
round-trip ticket
return ticket | a ticket to a place and back (usually over the same route) |
| day return | a return ticket (at reduced fare) for traveling both ways in the same day |
tax return
income tax return
return | document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability, his gross income was enough that he had to file a tax return |
| amended return | a tax return that corrects the information in an earlier return |
declaration of estimated tax
estimated tax return | return required of a taxpayer whose tax withheld from income does not meet the tax liability for the year |
| false return | an incorrect income tax return |
| information return | a return that provides information to the tax collector but does not compute the tax liability |
| joint return | a return filed by a husband and wife |
| return address | the address of the sender of a letter or parcel indicating where it should be returned if it cannot be delivered |
rejoinder
retort
return riposte
replication comeback
counter | a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one), it brought a sharp rejoinder from the teacher |
recurrence
return | happening again (especially at regular intervals), the return of spring |
| return coming back | the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction |
return
issue
take
takings
proceeds
yield
payoff | the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property, the average return was about % |
| carriage return | the operation that prepares for the next character to be printed or displayed as the first character on a line |
exponential decay
exponential return | a decrease that follows an exponential function |
| rate of return | the amount returned per unit of time expressed as a percentage of the cost |
return on invested capital
return on investment
ROI | (corporate finance) the amount, expressed as a percentage, that is earned on a company's total capital calculated by dividing the total capital into earnings before interest, taxes, or dividends are paid |
revert
return
retrovert
regress turn back | go back to a previous state, We reverted to the old rules |
come back
return | be restored, Her old vigor returned |
retort
come back repay
return riposte
rejoin | answer back |
| return | submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority, submit a bill to a legislative body |
hark back
return
come back
recall | go back to something earlier, This harks back to a previous remark of his |
| render deliver return | pass down, render a verdict, deliver a judgment |
| return | make a return, return a kickback |
render
yield
return
give
generate | give or supply, The cow brings in liters of milk, This year's crop yielded ,bushels of corn, The estate renders some revenue for the family |
| return | go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before, return to your native land, the professor returned to his teaching position after serving as Dean |
| return | return to a previous position, in mathematics, The point returned to the interior of the figure |
| return take back bring back | bring back to the point of departure |
| fall d return d pass d devolve d | be inherited by, The estate fell to my sister, The land returned to the family, The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead |
refund
return
repay
give back | pay back, Please refund me my money |
render
return | give back, render money |
| return | return in kind, return a compliment, return her love |
reelect
return | elect again |
in return
reciprocally | (often followed by `for') in exchange or in reciprocation, gave up our seats on the plane and in return received several hundred dollars and seats on the next plane out, we get many benefits in return for our taxes |