Migration (n.) The act of migrating. |
Return (v. i.) To turn back |
Return (v. i.) To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular |
Return (v. i.) To speak in answer |
Return (v. i.) To revert |
Return (v. i.) To go back in thought, narration, or argument. |
Return (v. t.) To bring, carry, send, or turn, back |
Return (v. t.) To repay |
Return (v. t.) To give in requital or recompense |
Return (v. t.) To give back in reply |
Return (v. t.) To retort |
Return (v. t.) To report, or bring back and make known. |
Return (v. t.) To render, as an account, usually an official account, to a superior |
Return (v. t.) Hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers. |
Return (v. t.) To bring or send back to a tribunal, or to an office, with a certificate of what has been done |
Return (v. t.) To convey into official custody, or to a general depository. |
Return (v. t.) To bat (the ball) back over the net. |
Return (v. t.) To lead in response to the lead of one's partner |
Return (n.) The act of returning (intransitive), or coming back to the same place or condition |
Return (n.) The act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the same place or condition |
Return (n.) That which is returned. |
Return (n.) A payment |
Return (n.) An answer |
Return (n.) An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, and the like |
Return (n.) The profit on, or advantage received from, labor, or an investment, undertaking, adventure, etc. |
Return (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 |
Return (n.) The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court. |
Return (n.) The certificate of an officer stating what he has done in execution of a writ, precept, etc., indorsed on the document. |
Return (n.) The sending back of a commission with the certificate of the commissioners. |
Return (n.) A day in bank. See Return day, below. |
Return (n.) An official account, report, or statement, rendered to the commander or other superior officer |
Return (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 |
emigration out-migration expatriation | migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another) |
immigration in-migration | migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there) |
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 |
migration | the movement of persons from one country or locality to another |
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 |
migration | the periodic passage of groups of animals (especially birds or fishes) from one region to another for feeding or breeding |
migration | (chemistry) the nonrandom movement of an atom or radical from one place to another within a molecule |
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 |
migration | a group of people migrating together (especially in some given time period) |
migration route flyway | the geographic route along which birds customarily migrate |
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 |