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Return   /rɪtˈərn/  /ritˈərn/   Listen
Return

noun
1.
Document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability.  Synonyms: income tax return, tax return.
2.
A coming to or returning home.  Synonym: homecoming.
3.
The occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction.  Synonym: coming back.
4.
Getting something back again.  Synonyms: regaining, restitution, restoration.
5.
The act of going back to a prior location.
6.
The income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property.  Synonyms: issue, payoff, proceeds, take, takings, yield.
7.
Happening again (especially at regular intervals).  Synonym: recurrence.
8.
A quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one).  Synonyms: comeback, counter, rejoinder, replication, retort, riposte.
9.
The key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed.  Synonym: return key.
10.
A reciprocal group action.  Synonyms: getting even, paying back.
11.
A tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player.
12.
(American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble.
13.
The act of someone appearing again.  Synonym: reappearance.
verb
(past & past part. returned; pres. part. returning)
1.
Go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before.  "The professor returned to his teaching position after serving as Dean"
2.
Give back.  Synonym: render.
3.
Go back to a previous state.  Synonyms: regress, retrovert, revert, turn back.
4.
Go back to something earlier.  Synonyms: come back, hark back, recall.
5.
Bring back to the point of departure.  Synonyms: bring back, take back.
6.
Return in kind.  "Return her love"
7.
Make a return.
8.
Answer back.  Synonyms: come back, rejoin, repay, retort, riposte.
9.
Be restored.  Synonym: come back.
10.
Pay back.  Synonyms: give back, refund, repay.
11.
Pass down.  Synonyms: deliver, render.  "Deliver a judgment"
12.
Elect again.  Synonym: reelect.
13.
Be inherited by.  Synonyms: devolve, fall, pass.  "The land returned to the family" , "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead"
14.
Return to a previous position; in mathematics.
15.
Give or supply.  Synonyms: generate, give, render, yield.  "This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn" , "The estate renders some revenue for the family"
16.
Submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority.



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"Return" Quotes from Famous Books



... perfect. Had she never known Charlie, or if she had not gone so far with him!—There was something in Frank that was very nice—she could like the two. What a pity the two were not one! "If he were always as nice as he is now, and not lecture me!" Then she remembered she must return home. "I must really go home; I ...
— Spring Days • George Moore
... in haste to help the Trojans, who miss me greatly when I am not among them; but urge your husband, and of his own self also let him make haste to overtake me before I am out of the city. I must go home to see my household, my wife and my little son, for I know not whether I shall ever again return to them, or whether the gods will cause me to fill by the hands of ...
— The Iliad • Homer
... deputies stood in opposition against Vienna with the exception of Kramar, who tried to imitate the Polish positivist policy in the hope of obtaining concessions in return. But, as we have already shown in a previous chapter, Dr. Kramar abandoned this policy even before the war, when he saw how completely Austria was tied to Germany. The bulk of the Czech people were, of course, always solidly anti-Austrian. During the Balkan War the Czechs openly showed their sympathies ...
— Independent Bohemia • Vladimir Nosek
... On the return journey they were silent and preoccupied, and half an hour later the King was home in his nursery with Perez the Mouse, who again put the tip of his tail into Bubi's nose and made him sneeze. All at once he found himself safely back again in his own warm little cot, with the Queen's ...
— Perez the Mouse • Luis Coloma
... them—with an agonised protest in her heart that she had never, never in her life gone after any improper person before—and, crowning misfortune of all, with a horrible consciousness that she had left the garden-door open, hoping to return in a few minutes, Miss Dora Wentworth, single woman as she was, and ignorant of evil, was whirled off in pursuit of the unfortunate Rosa into the dark ...
— The Perpetual Curate • Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant


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