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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Tertian :: Tertian (n.) A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day..
Return :: Return (n.) The certificate of an officer stating what he has done in execution of a writ, precept, etc., indorsed on the document..
Recourse :: Recourse (n.) A coursing back, or coursing again, along the line of a previous coursing; renewed course; return; retreat; recurence..
Ritornello :: Ritornello (n.) A short return or repetition; a concluding symphony to an air, often consisting of the burden of the song..
Recursion :: Recursion (n.) The act of recurring; return.
Refit :: Refit (v. i.) To obtain repairs or supplies; as, the fleet returned to refit..
Irreturnable :: Irreturnable (a.) Not to be returned.
Reward :: Reward (n.) That which is given in return for good or evil done or received; esp., that which is offered or given in return for some service or attainment, as for excellence in studies, for the return of something lost, etc.; recompense; requital..
Redound :: Redound (n.) The coming back, as of consequence or effect; result; return; requital..
Repay :: Repay (v. t.) To make return or requital for; to recompense; -- in a good or bad sense; as, to repay kindness; to repay an injury..
Retribute :: Retribute (v. t.) To pay back; to give in return, as payment, reward, or punishment; to requite; as, to retribute one for his kindness; to retribute just punishment to a criminal..
Nabob :: Nabob (n.) One who returns to Europe from the East with immense riches: hence, any man of great wealth..
Church :: Church (v. t.) To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women..
Regress :: Regress (n.) The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. The progress or regress of man..
Return :: Return (v. t.) To give back in reply; as, to return an answer; to return thanks..
Inboard :: Inboard (a. & adv.) From without inward; toward the inside; as, the inboard stroke of a steam engine piston, the inward or return stroke..
Hypostrophe :: Hypostrophe (n.) A relapse, or return of a disease..
Answer :: Answer (n.) Something done in return for, or in consequence of, something else; a responsive action..
Return :: Return (v. t.) To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie..
Compensate :: Compensate (v. t.) To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses..
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