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noun

Rebate n.

Diminution.

(Com.) Deduction; abatement; as, a rebate of interest for immediate payment; a rebate of importation duties.

A portion of a sum paid, returned to the purchaser, as a method of discounting. The rebate is sometimes returned by the manufacturer, after the full price is paid to the retailer by the purchaser.

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Etymology of 'Rebate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rebate" Quotes from Famous Books

... would do him good. A minister uses argumentation when he tries to make his congregation believe, as he believes, that ten minutes spent in prayer each morning will make the day's work easier. The salesman uses argumentation to sell his goods. The chance of the merchant to recover a rebate on a bill of goods that he believes are defective depends entirely on his ability to make the seller believe the same thing. On argumentation the lawyer bases his hope of making the jury believe that his client is innocent of crime. All of us every ...

— Elements of Debating • Leverett S. Lyon

... The rebate allowed the sugar manufacturers per double quintal was actually higher than the tax paid by them on beets; and this premium enabled them to sell large quantities of sugar at the expense of the domestic tax-payers, and to extend ever more the cultivation of the sugar-beet. The profit ...

— Woman under socialism • August Bebel

... a six hours' trial; those under one thousand tons, of not less than eight knots. In addition to the loans the Government was to bear part of the expense of insurance. To facilitate the export of Russian goods in Russian-built ships, a rebate was allowed of half the expense of Russian coal used in steamers carrying less than three-fourths of a full cargo on export, and one-half cargo on import. It was estimated that this scheme for fostering domestic shipbuilding would entail smaller drafts on the national treasury ...

— Manual of Ship Subsidies • Edwin M. Bacon

... deduction sometimes made at a custom-house from the fixed duties on certain kinds of goods, on account of damage or loss sustained in warehouses. The rate and conditions of such deductions are regulated, in England, by the Customs Consolidation Act 1853. (See also DRAWBACK; REBATE.) ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

Words linked to "Rebate" : rusticate, rabbet, refund, join, channel, rent-rebate, cut, bring together, groove, discount