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(intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
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(intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
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To turn back, retreat.
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To turn (something) round.
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(transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
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(transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
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(transitive) To take back something to a vendor for a refund.
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To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
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(tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
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(card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
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(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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(transitive) To say in reply; to respond.
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To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
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To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
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To retort; to throw back.
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(transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.
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To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
Returnnoun
The act of returning.
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A return ticket.
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An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
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An answer.
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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.
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Gain or loss from an investment.
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: A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts. A tax return.
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(computing) A carriage return character.
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(computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
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(computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
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A return valve.
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A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
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(American football) Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
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(cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
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(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.
Returnverb
To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.
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To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular; to appear again.
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To speak in answer; to reply; to respond.
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To revert; to pass back into possession.
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To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
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To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse.
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To repay; as, to return borrowed money.
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To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
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To give back in reply; as, to return an answer; to return thanks.
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To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie.
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To report, or bring back and make known.
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To render, as an account, usually an official account, to a superior; to report officially by a list or statement; as, to return a list of stores, of killed or wounded; to return the result of an election.
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Hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers.
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To bring or send back to a tribunal, or to an office, with a certificate of what has been done; as, to return a writ.
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To convey into official custody, or to a general depository.
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To bat (the ball) back over the net.
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To lead in response to the lead of one's partner; as, to return a trump; to return a diamond for a club.
Returnnoun
The act of returning (intransitive), or coming back to the same place or condition; as, the return of one long absent; the return of health; the return of the seasons, or of an anniversary.
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The act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the same place or condition; restitution; repayment; requital; retribution; as, the return of anything borrowed, as a book or money; a good return in tennis.
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That which is returned.
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An answer; as, a return to one's question.
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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; - applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer; thus, a facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south.
Returnnoun
The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court.
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An official account, report, or statement, rendered to the commander or other superior officer; as, the return of men fit for duty; the return of the number of the sick; the return of provisions, etc.
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The turnings and windings of a trench or mine.
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document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability;
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a coming to or returning home;
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the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction
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getting something back again;
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the act of returning to a prior location;
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the income arising from land or other property;
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happening again (especially at regular intervals);
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a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one);
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the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed
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a reciprocal group action;
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a tennis stroke that returns the ball to the other player;
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(American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble
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the act of someone appearing again;
Returnverb
come back to place where one has been before, or return to a previous activity
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give back;
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go back to a previous state;
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go back to something earlier;
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bring back to the point of departure
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return in kind;
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make a return;
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answer back
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be restored;
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pay back;
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pass down;
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elect again
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be inherited by;
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return to a previous position; in mathematics;
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give or supply;
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submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority;
Issuenoun
The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly:
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A movement of soldiers towards an enemy, a sortie.
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The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly in abnormal amounts.
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Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly:
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The bodily fluid drained through a natural or artificial issue.
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Offspring: one's natural child or children.
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Progeny: all one's lineal descendants.
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A race of people considered as the descendants of some common ancestor.
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The produce or income derived from farmland or rental properties.
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Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves.
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The entrails of a slaughtered animal.
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Any action or deed performed by a person.
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Luck considered as the favor or disfavor of nature, the gods, or God.
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A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication.
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The entire set of some item printed and disseminated during a certain period, particularly a single printing of a particular edition of a work when contrasted with other print runs.
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(finance) Any financial instrument issued by a company.
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The loan of a book etc. from a library to a patron; all such loans by a given library during a given period.
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The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly:
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A sewer.
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The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet, particularly:
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An exit from a room or building.
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A confluence: the mouth of a river; the outlet of a lake or other body of water.
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The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly:
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A small incision, tear, or artificial ulcer, used to drain fluid and usually held open with a pea or other small object.
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The production or distribution of something for general use.
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The distribution of something (particularly rations or standardized provisions) to someone or some group.
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(finance) The action or an instance of a company selling bonds, stock, or other securities.
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Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly:
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A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court.
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Anything in dispute, an area of disagreement whose resolution is being debated or decided.
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A dispute between two alternatives, a dilemma.
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A psychological or emotional difficulty, any problem or concern considered as a vague and intractable difficulty.
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The action or an instance of concluding something, particularly:
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The end of any action or process.
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The end of any period of time.
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The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly:
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The result of a discussion or negotiation, an agreement.
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The result of an investigation or consideration, a conclusion.
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The action or an instance of feeling some emotion.
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The action or an instance of leaving any state or condition.
Issueverb
To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
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To rush out, to sally forth.
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To extend into, to open onto.
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To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
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(legal) To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
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To send out; to put into circulation.
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To deliver for use.
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To deliver by authority.
Issuenoun
The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air from a bellows, of people from a house.
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The act of sending out, or causing to go forth; delivery; issuance; as, the issue of an order from a commanding officer; the issue of money from a treasury.
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That which passes, flows, or is sent out; the whole quantity sent forth or emitted at one time; as, an issue of bank notes; the daily issue of a newspaper.
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Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes, in a general sense, all persons descended from a common ancestor; all lineal descendants.
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Produce of the earth, or profits of land, tenements, or other property; as, A conveyed to B all his right for a term of years, with all the issues, rents, and profits.
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A discharge of flux, as of blood.
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An artificial ulcer, usually made in the fleshy part of the arm or leg, to produce the secretion and discharge of pus for the relief of some affected part.
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The final outcome or result; upshot; conclusion; event; hence, contest; test; trial.
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A point in debate or controversy on which the parties take affirmative and negative positions; a presentation of alternatives between which to choose or decide; a point of contention; a matter in controversy.
Issuenoun
In pleading, a single material point of law or fact depending in the suit, which, being affirmed on the one side and denied on the other, is presented for determination. See General issue, under General, and Feigned issue, under Feigned.
Issueverb
To pass or flow out; to run out, as from any inclosed place.
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To go out; to rush out; to sally forth; as, troops issued from the town, and attacked the besiegers.
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To proceed, as from a source; as, water issues from springs; light issues from the sun.
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To proceed, as progeny; to be derived; to be descended; to spring.
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To extend; to pass or open; as, the path issues into the highway.
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To be produced as an effect or result; to grow or accrue; to arise; to proceed; as, rents and profits issuing from land, tenements, or a capital stock.
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To close; to end; to terminate; to turn out; as, we know not how the cause will issue.
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In pleading, to come to a point in fact or law, on which the parties join issue.
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To send out; to put into circulation; as, to issue notes from a bank.
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To deliver for use; as, to issue provisions.
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To send out officially; to deliver by authority; as, to issue an order; to issue a writ.
Issuenoun
an important question that is in dispute and must be settled;
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one of a series published periodically;
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the provision of something by issuing it (usually in quantity);
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some situation or event that is thought about;
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supplies (as food or clothing or ammunition) issued by the government
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the immediate descendants of a person;
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a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon;
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the income arising from land or other property;
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the becoming visible;
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an opening that permits escape or release;
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the act of issuing printed materials
Issueverb
prepare and issue for public distribution or sale;
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circulate or distribute or equip with;
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bring out an official document (such as a warrant)
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come out of;
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make out and issue;