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noun

Rebate n.

1.

Diminution.

2.

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

3.

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.

Rebate n.

1.

(Arch.) A rectangular longitudinal recess or groove, cut in the corner or edge of any body; a rabbet. See Rabbet.

2.

A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.

3.

An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.

4.

A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements. (R.)

verb

Rebate v. t.

1.

To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise. "But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge."

2.

To deduct from; to make a discount from, as interest due, or customs duties.

3.

To return a portion of a sum paid, as a method of discounting of prices.

Rebated cross, a cross which has the extremities of the arms bent back at right angles, as in the fylfot.

Rebate v. t. To cut a rebate in. See Rabbet, v.

Rebate v. i. To abate; to withdraw. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Rebate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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