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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



... occupied in Palestine. And when he had made John king, he, Philip Augustus, was to be rewarded by the gift of Normandy! With this in view, Philip returned to France. It was an ingenious plot, but all was spoiled by Richard's safe return from the thrilling adventures of the Crusade. In 1199, however, the crown passed naturally to John by the death of his brother, and this vicious son of Eleanor ...
— A Short History of France • Mary Platt Parmele
... a score of years since I was in France," he says to Mr. Calvert, laying down the manuscript, "but the interest which that country aroused in me then has never flagged, and ever since my return I have endeavored to keep myself informed of the progress of events there. While in Paris I was presented to their Majesties and many of the most notable men and women of the day. I remember the Queen well—surely there never was a princess so beautiful ...
— Calvert of Strathore • Carter Goodloe
... a desire," said the General, "to return to the hotel of O'Brien, in which I am stop. Caramba! senor, there is a loudness and rapidness of going and coming in the city ...
— Strictly Business • O. Henry
... they are so far developed that they can perform the functions of leaves they are to be counted as parasites. When, therefore, these shoots are pruned or pinched away, the plant is robbed of the material used by the lusty shoot which up to this time has given nothing in return. The vigor of the plant is thus checked and fruitfulness increased. Summer-pruning may become harmful if delayed too long. The time to prune is past with the grape when the leaves have passed from the light ...
— Manual of American Grape-Growing • U. P. Hedrick
... to Mdlle. Calamatta, spoken of by Madame Sand as a heart's desire of hers at length fulfilled, took place in 1862, not many months after his return from half a year of travel in Africa and America, in the company of Prince Napoleon. The event proved a fresh source of the purest happiness to her, and was not to separate her from her son. The young people settled at Nohant, which remained ...
— Famous Women: George Sand • Bertha Thomas


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