Return vs. Refund
Returnverb
(intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
Returnverb
(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.
Returnverb
To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
Returnnoun
The act of returning.
Returnnoun
A return ticket.
Returnnoun
An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
Returnnoun
An answer.
Returnnoun
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.
Returnnoun
Gain or loss from an investment.
Returnnoun
: A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts. A tax return.
Returnnoun
(computing) A carriage return character.
Returnnoun
(computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
Returnnoun
(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.
Returnnoun
(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.
Returnverb
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.
Returnnoun
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.
Returnnoun
That which is returned.
Returnnoun
An answer; as, a return to one's question.
Returnnoun
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.
Returnnoun
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
Returnverb
give back;
Returnverb
go back to a previous state;
Returnverb
go back to something earlier;
Returnverb
bring back to the point of departure
Returnverb
return in kind;
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make a return;
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answer back
Returnverb
be restored;
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pay back;
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pass down;
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elect again
Returnverb
be inherited by;
Returnverb
return to a previous position; in mathematics;
Returnverb
give or supply;
Returnverb
submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority;
Refundverb
(transitive) To return (money) to (someone); to reimburse.
Refundverb
To supply again with funds.
Refundverb
To pour back.
Refundnoun
An amount of money returned.
Refundverb
To fund again or anew; to replace (a fund or loan) by a new fund; as, to refund a railroad loan.
Refundverb
To pour back.
Refundverb
To give back; to repay; to restore.
Refundverb
To supply again with funds; to reimburse.
Refundnoun
money returned to a payer
Refundnoun
the act of returning money received previously
Refundverb
pay back;
