Definition of return

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Return (n.) The profit on, or advantage received from, labor, or an investment, undertaking, adventure, etc..

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Sidereal :: Sidereal (a.) Measuring by the apparent motion of the stars; designated, marked out, or accompanied, by a return to the same position in respect to the stars; as, the sidereal revolution of a planet; a sidereal day..
Seal :: Seal (n.) An arrangement for preventing the entrance or return of gas or air into a pipe, by which the open end of the pipe dips beneath the surface of water or other liquid, or a deep bend or sag in the pipe is filled with the liquid; a draintrap..
Withernam :: Withernam (n.) A second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal; -- chiefly used in the expression capias in withernam, which is the name of a writ used in connection with the action of replevin (sometimes called a writ of reprisal), which issues to a defendant in replevin when he has obtained judgment for a return of the chattels replevied, and fails to obtain them on the writ of return..
Antiperiodic :: Antiperiodic (n.) A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers..
Sympode :: Symploce (n.) The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and another at the end of successive clauses; as, Justice came down from heaven to view the earth; Justice returned to heaven, and left the earth..
Returner :: Returner (n.) One who returns.
Again :: Again (adv.) In return, back; as, bring us word again..
Return :: Return (v. i.) To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular; to appear again..
Recriminate :: Recriminate (v. t.) To accuse in return.
Return :: Return (v. i.) To go back in thought, narration, or argument..
Restitution :: Restitution (v.) That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroved; compensation..
Revertive :: Revertive (a.) Reverting, or tending to revert; returning..
Revenue :: Revenue (n.) Hence, return; reward; as, a revenue of praise..
Burden :: Burden (n.) The verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end of each stanza; the chorus; refrain. Hence: That which is often repeated or which is dwelt upon; the main topic; as, the burden of a prayer..
Jugular :: "Jugular (a.) One of the large veins which return the blood from the head to the heart through two chief trunks, an external and an internal, on each side of the neck; -- called also the jugular vein..
Sell :: Sell (v. t.) To transfer to another for an equivalent; to give up for a valuable consideration; to dispose of in return for something, especially for money..
Retroaction :: Retroaction (n.) Action returned, or action backward..
Remise :: Remise (n.) A giving or granting back; surrender; return; release, as of a claim..
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..
Reflux :: Reflux (n.) A flowing back, as the return of a fluid; ebb; reaction; as, the flux and reflux of the tides..
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