Definition of return

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Return (n.) The act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the same place or condition; restitution; repayment; requital; retribution; as, the return of anything borrowed, as a book or money; a good return in tennis..

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Doctor :: Doctor (v. t.) To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky..
Nabob :: Nabob (n.) One who returns to Europe from the East with immense riches: hence, any man of great wealth..
Return :: Return (v. i.) To go back in thought, narration, or argument..
React :: React (v. i.) To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state..
Return :: Return (v. i.) To revert; to pass back into possession.
Payment :: Payment (n.) That which is paid; the thing given in discharge of a debt, or an obligation, or in fulfillment of a promise; reward; recompense; requital; return..
Calx :: Calx (n.) Broken and refuse glass, returned to the post..
Resound :: Resound (v. t.) To throw back, or return, the sound of; to echo; to reverberate..
Reversion :: Reversion (n.) The act of returning, or coming back; return..
Revive :: Revive (v. i.) To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
Returned :: Returned (imp. & p. p.) of Retur.
Reflex :: Reflex (a.) Produced in reaction, in resistance, or in return..
Statutable :: Status quo () The state in which anything is already. The phrase is also used retrospectively, as when, on a treaty of place, matters return to the status quo ante bellum, or are left in statu quo ante bellum, i.e., the state (or, in the state) before the war..
Return :: Return (n.) An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, and the like; as, election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information..
Indorsement :: Indorsement (n.) That which is written on the back of a note, bill, or other paper, as a name, an order for, or a receipt of, payment, or the return of an officer, etc.; a writing, usually upon the back, but sometimes on the face, of a negotiable instrument, by which the property therein is assigned and transferred..
Homer :: Homer (n.) A carrier pigeon remarkable for its ability to return home from a distance.
Logrolling :: Logrolling (n.) Hence: A combining to assist another in consideration of receiving assistance in return; -- sometimes used of a disreputable mode of accomplishing political schemes or ends.
Annual :: Annual (n.) A thing happening or returning yearly; esp. a literary work published once a year.
Reversion :: Reversion (n.) A return towards some ancestral type or character; atavism.
Return :: Return (v. t.) To report, or bring back and make known..
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