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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



... of Miss Redbud and Miss Fanny—used our best efforts to place upon record what they amused themselves with, laughed at, and took pleasure in, under the golden trees of the beautiful woods, and in the happy autumn fields—now we are at liberty to return to our good old border town, and those other personages of the history, whose merits ...
— The Last of the Foresters • John Esten Cooke
... that it shall be over in one day, ma'am. She will continue to be on bail, and can return home. I will see that she is not annoyed as ...
— Orley Farm • Anthony Trollope
... and successors in the gem-importing business were promptly on hand to claim their property; an enterprise in which they succeeded after the determination of some legal complications; and the Paternostros started with the ruby on the return to London. ...
— The Paternoster Ruby • Charles Edmonds Walk
... return to Harrisburg?" Byron Polder inquired. "My son," he went on to Howat Penny, "is a practical iron man. I say iron, although that is no longer the phrase, because of natural associations. The present system of the manufacture ...
— The Three Black Pennys - A Novel • Joseph Hergesheimer
... information bureaus for him, and no means whatever of keeping him informed upon progress and discovery in medical science. He is not even required to set apart a month or so in every two or three years in order to return to lectures and hospitals and refresh his knowledge. Indeed, the income of the average general practitioner would not permit of such a thing, and almost the only means of contact between him and current thought lies in the one or other of our ...
— An Englishman Looks at the World • H. G. Wells


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