Definition of return

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Return (n.) 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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Render :: Render (v. t.) To return; to pay back; to restore.
Indorsement :: Indorsement (n.) That which is written on the back of a note, bill, or other paper, as a name, an order for, or a receipt of, payment, or the return of an officer, etc.; a writing, usually upon the back, but sometimes on the face, of a negotiable instrument, by which the property therein is assigned and transferred..
Reversion :: Reversion (n.) The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after the termination of a limited or less estate carved out of it and conveyed by him..
Hypostrophe :: Hypostrophe (n.) A relapse, or return of a disease..
Return :: Return (v. t.) To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
Revenue :: Revenue (n.) Hence, return; reward; as, a revenue of praise..
Reflux :: Reflux (n.) A flowing back, as the return of a fluid; ebb; reaction; as, the flux and reflux of the tides..
Report :: Report (v. t.) To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred; as, the committee reported the bill witth amendments, or reported a new bill, or reported the results of an inquiry..
Change :: Change (v. t.) Small money; the money by means of which the larger coins and bank bills are made available in small dealings; hence, the balance returned when payment is tendered by a coin or note exceeding the sum due..
Respond :: Respond (v. i.) To show some effect in return to a force; to act in response; to accord; to correspond; to suit.
Redhibition :: Redhibition (n.) The annulling of a sale, and the return by the buyer of the article sold, on account of some defect..
Quittal :: Quittal (n.) Return; requital; quittance.
Fyke :: Fyke (n.) A long bag net distended by hoops, into which fish can pass easily, without being able to return; -- called also fyke net..
Returnable :: Returnable (a.) Capable of, or admitting of, being returned..
Rotation :: Rotation (n.) Any return or succesion in a series.
Reward :: Reward (v. t.) To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate..
Crossette :: Crossette (n.) A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window; -- called also ancon, ear, elbow..
Return :: Return (v. t.) To bat (the ball) back over the net.
Reverberate :: Reverberate (v. t.) To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat..
Light :: Light (superl.) Not heavily burdened; not deeply laden; not sufficiently ballasted; as, the ship returned light..
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