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Rebate   /rˈibˌeɪt/   Listen
Rebate

noun
1.
A refund of some fraction of the amount paid.  Synonym: discount.
2.
A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together.  Synonym: rabbet.
verb
1.
Give a reduction in the price during a sale.
2.
Cut a rebate in (timber or stone).
3.
Join with a rebate.



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"Rebate" Quotes from Famous Books



... paid not only upon the oil shipped by the company, but upon that shipped by any other competing companies. "In one locality the railroad companies were to charge oil shippers as freight not exceeding $1.50 per barrel, and pay a rebate to the South Improvement Company of $1.06 per barrel, whether it was the shipper of the oil or not, so that under these contracts the Standard Oil Company members would pay no more than 44 cents per barrel ...
— The Evolution of Modern Capitalism - A Study of Machine Production • John Atkinson Hobson
... in my watch below. I came off duty at eight o'clock, and at midnight I go on deck to stay till four to-morrow morning. Wada shakes his head and says that the Blackwood Company should rebate us on the first-class passage paid in advance. We are working ...
— The Mutiny of the Elsinore • Jack London
... Tunstall advised against it. Luke Tweezy and he had a parting drink together. Then the money-lender took what was left of the second bottle of whiskey—the first was but a memory—to the bar and endeavoured to chivvy a rebate out of the bartender. But such a procedure was decidedly not the Happy Heart's method of doing business. Luke Tweezy, much to his disgust, for he never drank except in the way of trade, was forced to carry his bottle ...
— The Heart of the Range • William Patterson White
... little peace, in a little peace, Thou dost rebate thy rigid purposes Of imposed being, and relenting, mend'st Too much, with nought. The westering Phoebus' horse Paws i' the lucent dust as when he shocked The East with rising; O how may I trace In this decline that morning when we did Sport 'twixt the claws of newly-whelped ...
— New Poems • Francis Thompson
... Canibas." His face grew hard. "D—n you, I'll never forget what you did to me! I'm coming right out open with you. I'd like to do you in return. I can do it. But I'll give you a chance; it's for my interest to do so, providing you buy the let-off. If you don't stand by me in that tax rebate, I'll launch the story. What I lose in support I'll more than make up in seeing you squirm. I'm pretty frank, ain't I? Well, I play strong when I've got enough trumps under ...
— The Ramrodders - A Novel • Holman Day


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